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From: ittai@VX2.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Ungermann-Bass terminal servers and DNS
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Date: 7 Dec 88 19:08:45 GMT
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In release 1 of UB's NETONE/TCP product for terminal servers, 
which relied on IEN-116 name servers, there was a configuration
option for a default domain name.  In release 16, which now uses
DNS, this configuration option was removed.

End-users must now use fully-qualified hostnames for local (intra-
domain) hosts.  This is unacceptable to us.

We have worked around the problem, for the moment, by using Bind's
"domain" option.  But, the Bind 4.8 documentation explicitly warns
that "this is an obsolete facility which will be removed from future
releases".

One of our networking people contacted UB Customer Support who
apparently wouldn't even acknowledge that this was a problem.
Our local support person was also contacted and promised "to get
back to us".

Perhaps someone at UB engineering is listening.  If not, caveat emptor.

-Ittai

PS: Ron, does Rutgers still have these boxes?  Are there any other
    NIU-1x0 customers out there?