Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 08:04:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, nate@sri.MT.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Named and Reverse DNS lookups Message-ID: <199605021304.IAA11378@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199605020421.VAA01037@austin.polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at May 1, 96 09:21:38 pm
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> Joe wrote: > > > > The recommended way to do that (there must be an internet draft on the > > > subject), is to use CNAMEs, in a way similar to the following. > > ... > > Anyways this does NOT work on the BIND distributed with FreeBSD > > 2.0.5R or 2.1R. You will probably need the latest BIND code. > > Are you sure it doesn't work with those versions of BIND? The posting > you quoted is included in the DNS FAQ from comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains, > with a date of "Sun Nov 27 23:32:41 EST 1994". Surely our version of > BIND in 2.1R (and probably 2.0.5) is newer than that. I had reason to play with it around the time 2.1R came out, I couldn't get it to work, and someone on either the BIND list or the domains newsgroup confirmed that the BIND in FreeBSD did not support it. I would be delighted to be proven wrong, of course, because we need things like this. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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