Danny Mayer wrote: > 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
I don't know which version of BIND was ported to UCX V3.3. DEC's engineers tried to port the Berkeley TCP/IP code about ten years after Wollongong, TGV, and one or two other vendors had done it. They didn't have a clue! It took them years to get it right. Ultimately the VMS version was ported using the Ultrix (DEC Unix) version as a base. It wasn't until UCX (Ultrix Connection) V5 that they finally managed to get all their ducks in a row! Those were interesting times. From late August 1998 to late December, I learned more about TCP/IP, DNS, and BIND than I ever knew before (or since). _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
