Subject: Re: Mac Name
From: Seth Mattinen (sethm@roller.reno.nv.us)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 14:30:40 EST
on 2/2/00 7:54 AM, Bill Carlson at wcarlson@vh.org wrote:
> As atonement, an alternative to look at is MacDNS, which I finally was
> able to locate on Apple's site. It is basically bind for Mac. While it
> provides much more than mere host->ip mapping, it might be helpful for
> those who want caching of DNS (from my observations MacOS 8.x doesn't do
> this, please correct me if I am wrong).
>
> http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11264
Also, you might want to look at NonSequitur. It doesn't have a GUI like
MacDNS, so you have to know how bind zone files are formatted to use it.
NonSequitur, however, doesn't act as a caching nameserver.
http://www.gross.net/sw/nonsequitur/
You can always read RFC1912 if you want to know how DNS works. =)
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1912.html
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