In article <s_Gdnc0FHIkV_0nbnZ2dnUVZ_vyinZ2d@comcast.com>,
Pat Welch <patubb@inreach.com> wrote:
>ThreeStar wrote:
>> On Aug 28, 3:25 am, Pat Welch <pat...@inreach.com> wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> With Unixware 7.1.x you can do scoadmin "DNS Manager" and setup your DNS
>>> server by answering questions.
>>>
>>> I expected to find it on 6.0.0 with MP2 and OSS706C after I installed it
>>> on an old Dell a client had available. No joy.
>>>
>>> The install itself went in without a hiccup, it even auto detected the
>>> 3com nic and the network came up like a champ after the install finished.
>>>
>>> Some background:
>>>
>>> Their Windows based DNS would not play nice with some software installed
>>> on an SCO 5.0.7 server that required a working local (behind the
>>> firewall) DNS.
>>>
>>> Their local Windows guy could not figure how to get their Windows DNS
>>> server to respond to (for example) nslookup, which also failed when run
>>> from an XP desktop. It seemed to me to be insisting on using only WINS
>>> and/or Netbios to resolve names.
>>>
>>> So I suggested trying OS6 on his old Dell and pointing the 5.0.7 server
>>> there for it's internal DNS lookups.
>>>
>>> I've never needed to setup a DNS sever on 6.0 before, but I had assumed
>>> that DNS Manager would be there since the kernel was based on Unixware.
>>>
>>> I really don't want to wade through the 6.0 docs that just explain a
>>> bazillion options without offering some examples of a common setup.
>>>
>>> Would the 7.1.4 DNS Manager work under 6.0? Or can someone point me to a
>>> web site with simple working DNS samples under 6.0? SCO's Knowledge
>>> base and online Docs had little or nothing to offer.
>>>
>>> TIA.
>>>
>>> --
>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>> Pat Welch, UBB Computer Services, a WCS Affiliate
>>> SCO Authorized Partner
>>> Unix/Linux/Windows/Hardware Sales/Support
>>> (209) 745-1401 Cell: (209) 251-9120
>>> E-mail: pat...@inreach.com
>>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>
>> See TA 107297 for instructions on setting up named. There's no
>> Scoadmin manager for it that I'm aware of, although you can set up the
>> BIND DNS module of Webmin.
>>
>> A broken Windows DNS, if that's what your client has, is going to be
>> trouble. IMHO better to fix that than to add a duplicate name service
>> on the network.
>>
>> --RLR
>>
>>
>
>Been there done that got the coffee mug

>You forgot TA#110029, which basically explains the other TA is
>wrong about named.boot being the config file name, and of course
>the syntax for the shiny new 8.x BIND config file, named.conf,
>differs completely from named.boot. And it way predates OS6 and
>Unixware 7.1.3/4 anyway.

And in an email TODAY from isc [www.isc.org] said they are
discontinuing any support of the 8.x series. They are effectively
EOLed. The last patch for the 8.x series was released today.

I don't know how hard it would be to compile 9.4.1-P1 for SCO,
but if possible to get that going you will be in better shape than
running an EOL'ed version.


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From: ISC Customer Support <sue_graves@isc.org>
To: bind-announce@isc.org
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:55:05 -0700
Subject: BIND 8 is EOL as of 27 August 2008

Due to the continuing level of effort required to support BIND 8, ISC
has decided to change the status of BIND 8 to 'end of life'.

ISC strongly encourages users who depend on BIND 8 to migrate to BIND 9
as soon as possible.

It's never easy to retire a product. The security issues of BIND 8 are
many, and 7 years after the release of BIND 9, ISC must devote our
efforts to maintaining and enhancing the current version. BIND 9 was
always intended as a replacement for BIND 8, thus there are no more BIND
8 releases planned beyond 8.4.7-P1, being released today.

Please see ISC's website at http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/bind8-eol.php for
additional information and migration tools.
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