[HECnet] DECdns

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Sat May 28 18:02:18 PDT 2016


On 2016-05-29 00:28, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A flat file dump of the database will be enough. I'll handle the conversion to DECdns import file and the update of the server.

Uh...? I assume you want node names and node numbers. I produce those 
today, in the form of a command file that can be used with NCP under 
VMS. You can probably jusr process that thing.

MIM::US:[DECNET]FIX.COM

Whenevern I update the database, that file gets updated automatically as 
a part of the process.

	Johnny

>
> Jordi Guillaumes Pons
>
>
> El 28 maig 2016, a les 15:35, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> va escriure:
>> I don't know much of anything about DECdns, but if there is something I can do to help make it work better, let me know. I could automatically provide notifications in different ways when the nodename database gets updates, for example. Or provide it formatted in various ways...
>>
>>    Johnny
>>
>>> On 2016-05-28 11:04, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:
>>> I've not kept It up to date because no one was using it. I'll take a look... After relearning how to do it :)
>>>
>>> Jordi Guillaumes Pons
>>>
>>>
>>> El 28 maig 2016, a les 0:27, Mark Abene <phiber at phiber.com> va escriure:
>>>> Is anyone maintaining an up-to-date DECdns server based off of Johnny's nodedb?
>>>> I've recently set up an emulated VAX (simh) at 61.152 called ENKIDU,
>>>> running OpenVMS 7.3. I was hoping to use DECdns for simple node name
>>>> resolution. In the interim I'm using Jordi's DECdns server (which he
>>>> mentioned a while ago), but it doesn't appear to be as up to date with
>>>> the official nodedb as I'd like.  :)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Mark
>>
>> --
>> Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>>                                  ||  on a psychedelic trip
>> email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
>> pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
>


-- 
Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol


More information about the Hecnet-list mailing list