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- This is release 3.0.2 of the Hesiod name service library. Hesiod can
- provide general name service for a variety of applications and is
- based on the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon (BIND).
-
- To prepare this directory for building, run the command "./configure".
- configure takes a number of options; use "./configure --help" to find
- out what they are. Hesiod requires a vaguely ANSI compiler to build;
- gcc will do.
-
- Run "make" or "make all" to build the Hesiod library and programs.
-
- Run "make install" to install Hesiod.
-
- You will want to create a configuration file named hesiod.conf in the
- sysconfdir (/usr/local/etc/hesiod.conf by default) on your client
- machines, reading something like:
-
- rhs=.your.domain
- lhs=.ns
-
- The value of rhs can be overridden at run time by the environment
- variable HES_DOMAIN. The value ".ns" for lhs is an unfortunate
- historical convention; ".hs" or "hesiod" would have been better.
- Nevertheless, you probably want to use ".ns" for compatibility with
- existing Hesiod domains.
-
- To create Hesiod information on your central name servers, you need to
- make them authoritative for the domain ns.your.domain with a line in
- named.boot reading something like:
-
- primary ns.your.domain named.hesiod
-
- And then in named.hesiod, you need data looking something like:
-
- ; SOA and NS records.
- @ IN SOA server1.your.domain admin-address.your.domain (
- 40000 ; serial - database version number
- 1800 ; refresh - sec servers
- 300 ; retry - for refresh
- 3600000 ; expire - unrefreshed data
- 7200 ) ; min
- NS server1.your.domain
- NS server2.your.domain
-
- ; Actual Hesiod data.
- haynes.grplist TXT "haynes:2638"
- haynes.group TXT "haynes:*:2638:"
- 2638.gid CNAME haynes.group
- zephyr.sloc TXT "zephyrserver1.my.domain"
- zephyr.sloc TXT "zephyrserver2.my.domain"
-
- There is a mailing list at MIT for Hesiod users, hesiod@mit.edu. To
- get yourself on or off the list, send mail to hesiod-request@mit.edu.
-