On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Bruce Dawson wrote:
One of the great mysteries of the DNS world is: Why do they still refer
to 'bind' as 'named' - or vice versa?
FWIW, I've heard the (possibly bogus) explanation that "BIND" is the whole
package, including other utilities, while "named" is the specific
I think we're all together on this. Thanks guys for explaining some of
the details and clearing the confusion! Hopefully users will find this
is in the archives and get a better idea of the "rocket" we "scientists"
are working on!
--Bruce
"Karl J. Runge" wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Benjamin
Berkley Internet Name Domain == BIND
The point is that a frequently used interface is the resolver. Things like
gethostbyname etc from libc, resolv.conf...
--
-Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have -
-happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's
I keep meaning to look for/write a utility to provide a command-line
front-end to the gethostbyname(). (Yes, I know about dig(1), nslookup(8), and
host(1) -- those all make wonderful DNS clients, but they deliberately bypass
gethostbyname(), so you can test your DNS servers directly.
