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Article #118Re: Can't get through company gateway
From: Jim Davis
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 19:21
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 19:21
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In article <Bss60z.954@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> Mike O'Connor <mjo@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com> writes:
>Just out of curiosity, why does Sun not ship a DNS-knowledgable
>sendmail as the default? I ran into this and found it a little
>annoying.
Why (after learning the hard way) do so many people install SunOS in two
steps?
1. Install SunOS
2. Rip out sendmail, libresolv.a, patch lib.c to use the DNS coherently,
add the dozen-or-so patches CERT warned you about, chuck (or massively
massage) the shipped sendmail.cfs, replace a lot of old *.h files,
then build bind, real sendmail, maybe a decent rlogind, etc...
The Network is the Company? No. The Network is a lot of Extra Work.
--
Jim Davis | "I hope it's something that errupts into an itchy rash!"
jdavis@noao.edu | -- Ferguson Darling
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!malgudi.oar.net!caen!destroyer!ncar!noao!bordeaux.kpno.noao.edu!jdavis From: jdavis@bordeaux.kpno.noao.edu (Jim Davis) Subject: Re: Can't get through company gateway Message-ID: <1992Aug10.192121.22111@noao.edu> Sender: news@noao.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: bordeaux.kpno.noao.edu Organization: National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson AZ References: <1992Aug9.175746.23419@athena.mit.edu> <1992Aug10.171850.3697@ctr.columbia.edu> <Bss60z.954@ef2007.efhd.ford.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 19:21:21 GMT Lines: 18