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Date:      Sat, 20 Jan 1996 18:58:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>
To:        Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>
Cc:        "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re:MMDF
Message-ID:  <Pine.SCO.3.91.960120185742.10379E-100000@buffnet5.buffnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199601192113.QAA17077@shell.monmouth.com>

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On Fri, 19 Jan 1996, Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote:

> On Friday, Jan. 19, 1996  Garrett A. Wollman wrote:
> 
> > 
> > <<On Fri, 19 Jan 1996 08:27:43 -0500 (EST), Steve Hovey <root@buffnet.net> said:
> > 
> > > I have freebsd 2.1R and am having trouble porting MMDF to use name, and 
> > > some other issues to do with inetd.
> > 
> > > My kernal is compiled with options "compat_43"
> > 
> > > My mmdf docs stats that 4.3bsd is not supported in their name server code 
> > > at this point.
> > 
> > MMDF is hopelessly behind the times.  4.3 has only been out ten years,
> > and obsolete for five.  I would not waste my time if I were you.
> > 
> > -GAWollman
> > 
> 
> But it's a hell of a lot easier to work with than Sendmail.
> 
> It's also less of a security problem.
> 
> I'm going to work on mmdf after I resolve a couple of other problems
> with my 2.1.0 box.
> 
> BTW -- There's more MMDF out there than you think.
>        And it runs VERY WELL.

It does run well - the mmdf 4.2 with SCO does DNS fine - but there are 
compiler issues with freeBSD and all I really want to know is what 
version bsd is freeBSD I guess... if 4.3 is antiquated or whatever then 
what is it the equivalent of?





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