Subj : Pre-releases of the DNS Utilities for OS/2 To : All From : Andy Roberts Date : Sat Jan 13 2001 12:20 pm All , 13-Jan-01 04:40:28, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to All Subject: Pre-releases of the DNS Utilities for OS/2 JdBP> Currently, one has two choices for DNS servers that will run on JdBP> OS/2: ISC's BIND (ported by IBM and by others) and Bob Eager's JdBP> NAMED. Soon there will be a third. A while back, I said, in JdBP> the Fidonet OS2 echo, that I'd like to see a DNS server for OS/2 JdBP> that operated along the same sorts of lines as "djbdns" does on JdBP> Unix. So I'm in the process of writing one JdBP> As with much of my software projects, there's a pre-release JdBP> testing group. So if you want to, you can get in on the act JdBP> right now. Pre-release testers receive each of the pre-release JdBP> distribution archives that I make, and have access to a JdBP> non-backboned Fidonet echo, "JdeBP" (I didn't choose the JdBP> echotag!), I like to assign appropriate echotag names. That echo is for many of the prgms JdeBP wrote and is writing, such as the DNS Utilities (pre-release), Console API Developers' Toolkit (Conapi.Zip), Console API Runtime DLLs (Conrt.Zip), Command-Line Utilities (Os2Clu02.Zip), Tagline Manager (Tagmgr.Zip), etc. JdBP> for discussion, feedback, suggestions, observations, and testing JdBP> reports. People who join the pre-release testing group have a JdBP> moral obligation to run the programs and report their experiences JdBP> in the echo, but their only actual obligation is that they must JdBP> agree not to make the pre-release softwares available to the JdBP> general public in any way. This is a quality control measure, JdBP> more than anything else. I don't want incomplete and potentially JdBP> buggy versions of my softwares entering general circulation. (The JdBP> eventual released versions of the DNS Utilities will be freely JdBP> distributable, of course. -- JdBP> If the above has you curious, enthused, or interested, join the JdBP> pre-release testing group and play with the pre-releases of the JdBP> DNS Utilities for yourself. Drop a netmail to Andy Roberts at JdBP> 1:109/921.0 (who organizes it) for details, telling him that you JdBP> agree to the (hardly onerous) membership condition mentioned JdBP> above. An alternative that is probably easier for most of you would be to send me an E-Mail asking to join the Mailing List that is gated to the JdeBP echo. Thanks and Good Luck, Andy Roberts andy@shentel.net --- Terminate 5.00/Pro*at * Origin: Warp 4 engage.....----------=============>>>>>>>>>>> (1:109/921.1) .