[HECnet] Cisco DECnet routers and NML

[Dave McGuire]

On 5/5/20 10:42 AM, Jesper Christensen wrote:
>>   I've made extensive use of CHAOS class records in the past.  Not for
>> CHAOSnet, but for other stuff when I was running very large nameservers
>> at an ISP.  But tonight I tried to put a CHAOS class record into my
>> current nameserver, and it appears that BIND no longer recognizes this
>> class.  I'm running 9.12.1-P2.  I was surprised to see this, though it
>> has been probably 25 years since I'd used CHAOS.  I wonder when support
>> for this was removed.
>>
> 
> I think it should still be supported. One of the servers here at Update
> is running 9.11.5-P4 and is serving up a few CHAOS zones, and I couldn't
> find anything mentioning support for it being removed in newer versions.
> 
> 565 > dig @psilocybe.update.uu.se +short -c ch -t a up.update.uu.se
> CH-ADDR.NET. 3143
> 566 > dig @psilocybe.update.uu.se +short -c ch -t hinfo up.update.uu.se
> "KLH10" "ITS"
> 
> I think the CHAOS zones has to go under a separate view, though.
> 
>>   There is an "internal" special record type supported by BIND, class
>> CHAOS, type TXT, name version.bind, that returns the version number of
>> the BIND software, but this is not tied to zone files and I don't
>> believe (though I've not verified this) that it supports arbitrary data
>>  of the CHAOS class.
>>
> 
> 567 > dig @psilocybe.update.uu.se +short -c ch -t txt version.bind
> "Wouldn't you like to know? (Try asking for other Chaos things!)"
> 568 > dig @psilocybe.update.uu.se +short -c ch -t txt hostname.bind
> "Well you should know, you sent me the query? (Try asking for other
> Chaos things!)"
> 
> :)

  Oh, too cool!  I didn't look extensively, but I stuck a CHAOS TXT
record into an existing zone and reloaded, and it complained about that
line (saying it wasn't class IN) and failed to load the zone.  It's odd
to me that it would require a separate view, but I'm glad to see it's
still supported.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA