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From: dchen@oliveb.UUCP (Dennis T. Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: version of BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain)
Message-ID: <1868@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 21:57:02 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  7 21:57:02 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 07:13:42 EDT
Reply-To: dchen@oliveb.UUCP (Dennis T. Chen)
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Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
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I was told that I should upgrade to the new version of BIND (Berkeley
Internet Name Domain) and some network patches, while I having problem
with the PCs(running PC/TCP from Unipress) connect to 4.3bsd vax Unix
machines via Ethernet.  Name server is running on the vax 4.3bsd unix. 

The problem I encountered was the remote name server didn't response
CONSISTENTLY, for example, from IBM PC, I said
	rlogin olivea		#it immediately connect to the host, olivea

After I logout from olivea, and try "rlogin olivea" again, it said
	"can't resolve hostname, olivea, name server not responding"

Then wait for a few seconds, and try "rlogin olivea" again, and the 
name server finally responded.

This randomly happened on the other 4.3bsd machines too. Sometime
a couple consecutive "rlogin hostname" works, and the next time failed.

This seems to me that the remote name server doesn't COMPLETELY
close the connection. 

If this problem is the BIND and/or TCP/IP related, would someone point
me where I can get the patches ? I was told the lastest version of BIND
is version 7, is it true ?

Dennis Chen @ Olivetti ATC
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