From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 20 18:44:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA08300 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 18:44:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA08294 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 18:44:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA00606 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 1996 18:59:41 -0500 Received: from buffnet5.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa25898; 20 Jan 96 18:59 EST Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 18:58:51 -0500 (EST) From: steve hovey To: Bill/Carolyn Pechter cc: "Garrett A. Wollman" , freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re:MMDF In-Reply-To: <199601192113.QAA17077@shell.monmouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 19 Jan 1996, Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote: > On Friday, Jan. 19, 1996 Garrett A. Wollman wrote: > > > > > < 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?