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Article #757Re: clout closed
From: Karl Denninger
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 03:37
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 03:37
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In article <1993Jan13.154913.25635@midway.uchicago.edu> popelka@odysseus.uchicago.edu (Glenn Popelka) writes: >karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes: > > >BTW, what does CLOUT need NIS for if its one machine? > > I think (at least with Sun) NIS is the quickest (laziest?) way to hook >up to the DNS. You just build the maps with '-b', and put some servers in >resolv.conf, and you're running (sort of...). I'll say lazy. Rebuilding libc.so to have the resolver routines not only takes about 10 minutes, but is also documented. Further, NIS doesn't quite handle that right (try a site with multiple "A" records sometime as an object example.) Barf. -- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl) Data Line: [+1 312 248-0900]
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f8d04,c9def037e86f2928 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8d04,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-01-13 20:40:29 PST Newsgroups: chi.mail Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!iat.holonet.net!news.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!ddsw1!karl From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) Subject: Re: clout closed Message-ID: <C0trF0.DA2@ddsw1.mcs.com> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 03:37:48 GMT Distribution: chi References: <1993Jan12.143608.5659@serveme.chi.il.us> <C0r2oG.43o@ddsw1.mcs.com> <1993Jan13.154913.25635@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: MCSNet, Chicago, IL Lines: 20