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From: nomad@mist.cs.orst.edu (Lee Vincent Damon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: NAMED for HP-UX 5.xx
Message-ID: <1457@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Date: 10 Dec 87 08:50:04 GMT
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(I tried to mail this to you, but the nameserver couldn't
find any ref's to hpindda.HP.COM, including an MX record.)

In article <4310003@hpindda.HP.COM> you write:
>The answer I'm going to give you is not what you want to hear, I'm afraid.
>No, HP does not ship a version of BIND with any release of HP-UX nor will it
>be available with 6.0 (HP 9000/300) or 2.0 (9000/800). 
    .....
>However, we are a market-driven organization, and (unfortunately) the
>customer demand for BIND has not been that great.
>
>	Dave Richards - HP Information Networks Division

Consider the customer demand for BIND to be bumped by 12 computers
(at least) at this site.
 Anyway, if they don't start supporting BIND in the near future, they
will find themselves out in the wind on the Internet. When the SRI-NIC
static host table goes away, so will any machine that can't use a
nameserver.  I know that if I were specifying a machine, I would *require*
nameservice along with the other BSDisms (finger, talk, RCP, etc) that make
a networked environment "worthwhile."

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