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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Subject: Re: strange behavior of ckermit7 on solaris2.5.1
Date: 19 Jan 2000 23:25:32 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <865gad$d56$1@nntp2.atl.mindspring.net>,
Matthew H. Gerlach <gerlach@netcom.com> wrote:
:
: I don't claim to be an expert at this, but looking at the man pages
: on my Solaris box, the res_search() function essentially calls the
: DNS stuff directly. The function, gethostbyname(), is a more appropriate
: higher level function. gethostbyname() will get the info based
: on the "hosts" entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf. This entry allows one to
: specify, files, nis, nisplus, and/or dns to resolve names.
: It would be interesting for the original poster to show us their
: /etc/nsswitch.conf file to confirm or deny my theory to the problem.
:
: Matthew
That would be a correct assessment if we were calling res_search()
to perform the equivalent functionality provided by gethostbyname()
or gethostbyaddr(). Instead of reading CNAME or A records from the
DNS we are reading SRV and TXT records which are used to store other
types of information such as
on which port does the named service use on the specified host?
or
provide the Realm assigned to a specified hostname?
These questions must be answered by querying DNS via the res_search()
function. If there NIS+ pushes these queries off to a server that is
fine, the question is how do we perform the push?
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org