[TUHS] 4.3 BSD network name resolution

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Sun Jan 30 10:09:12 AEST 2022


> "There is no equivalent service for network names yet. The full host and

I see that in usr/doc/smm/01.setup/5.t

Do you have usr/doc/smm/11.named ?

Have a look at the resolver(3) and resolver(5) and gethostbyname(3n)  
and named(8) manual pages with 4.3BSD.

And see /usr/src/etc/named/doc
for the November 1983 RFC 883 specification.

(I haven't used that old one, but I did use a 1990 BIND 4.8.3 from 
4.3BSD-Reno / 386BSD using NetBSD compat and documented some of its 
behavior with modern DNS.)



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