In a message dated: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 16:35:23 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
> "Bothered" is the wrong word. The problem is confusion between ISC BIND and
>the Unix syscall bind(2). Which one any particular program is talking about
>is not always immediately apparent from context. :-)
I've never really seen the confusion. BIND is something relating to DNS,
bind(2) isn't :) man bind says nothing about DNS, man named only mentions
BIND, not bind. Maybe it's just me, but that seems no less logical than
telling someone that their system is hosed because it can't "bind" to an NIS
server ;)
>> As for "sunrpc" I think that's even *more* of a misnomer, since Sun did
>> nothing to "invent" RPC, they just decided to use it for NFS/NIS
>> implementation. RPC came out of Xerox...
>
> Interesting. I did not know that.
I ran across that in the Coriolis book on Linux TCP/IP Stacks the other day.
(good book, but it's based on 2.0.34 :)
>> ... (like most other ingenius things which were way ahead of their time).
>
>Yes. How does it go? "Xerox PARC: Inventing the future...for everyone else."
Yeah, that's about right :)
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Seeya,
Paul
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