This is release 3.2.1 of the Hesiod name service library. Hesiod can provide general name service for a variety of applications and is based on the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon (BIND).
To prepare this directory for building, run the command ./configure.
configure takes a number of options; use ./configure --help to find
out what they are. Hesiod requires a vaguely ANSI compiler to build;
gcc will do.
Run make or make all to build the Hesiod library.
Run make install to install the Hesiod library.
You will want to create a configuration file named hesiod.conf in the sysconfdir (/usr/local/etc/hesiod.conf by default) on your client machines, reading something like:
rhs=.your.domain
lhs=.ns
The value of rhs can be overridden at run time by the environment variable HES_DOMAIN. The value ".ns" for lhs is an unfortunate historical convention; ".hs" or "hesiod" would have been better. Nevertheless, you probably want to use ".ns" for compatibility with existing Hesiod domains.
To create Hesiod information on your central name servers, you need to make them authoritative for the domain ns.your.domain with a line in named.boot reading something like:
primary ns.your.domain named.hesiod
And then in named.hesiod, you need data looking something like:
; SOA and NS records.
@ IN SOA server1.your.domain admin-address.your.domain (
40000 ; serial - database version number
1800 ; refresh - sec servers
300 ; retry - for refresh
3600000 ; expire - unrefreshed data
7200 ) ; min
NS server1.your.domain
NS server2.your.domain
; Actual Hesiod data.
haynes.grplist TXT "haynes:2638"
haynes.group TXT "haynes:*:2638:"
2638.gid CNAME haynes.group
zephyr.sloc TXT "zephyrserver1.my.domain"
zephyr.sloc TXT "zephyrserver2.my.domain"
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