Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > Danny Mayer wrote: >> Setting up DNS doesn't take much effort to set up though admittedly I >> also have worked on the source code. >> > > Setting up a DNS server on VMS and TCP/IP Services was an experience > I'll carry to my grave. We had been using the server operated by our > upstream provider until they decided that the load was more than they > could handle. >
Well VMS is a bit different! I used UCX at the time! :) > This was ca. September 1998. I had no training or experience but > neither did anyone else at the site and I got stuck with the job! > > The documentation didn't say much about it and most of what it did say > was either incomplete or just flat out wrong! It was obviously written > by someone who had never done the job. > > The software, as issued, was broken. I wound up upgrading to the very > latest version of VMS plus the very latest ECO (13) for TCP/IP Services. > I spent a lot of time on the phone with third level tech support, a > wizard named Smiley Smith and, ultimately, with the developer. > > I had to do it again, a year or so later and it was none too easy the > second time around either! Copies of "DNS and BIND" and RFCs 1032, > 1033, 1034, 1035, and 1183 were my constant companions. I still have > the big three-ring binder with all that stuff in it. Who knows, I might > need it again someday although I hope not unless someone is sufficiently > desperate to pay two or three times my usual rates! Assuming that this was BIND4 or BIND8 I would not be at all surprised. Paul and I are old VMS hackers and have several times discussed porting BIND9 to VMS. Implemented DECThreads code would have been interesting. It will probably never happen as it's a dying O/S unfortunately. Danny _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions