30 Jan
2022
30 Jan
'22
4:13 a.m.
On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 2:49 PM Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm working through 4.3BSD setup and
configuration and came across this:
"There is no equivalent service for network names yet. The full host and
network name databases are normally derived from a file retrieved from
Internet Network Information Center at SRI... use gettable to retrieve the
NIC host database and htable to convert it to the format used by the
libraries."
Does this mean I should expect functionality like resolv.conf and ping
yahoo.com not to work in 4.3, or by some miracle is gettable still a
functional system?
DNS post-dates 4.3BSD. The first DNS RFC was published in Nov 1987. 4.3BSD
was June 1986. The host table update was a thing, but my school was far
enough off the beaten path that by the time we were on the internet, DNS
was a thing...
Warner