Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From what I can gather on this hesiod library, it's a dependency of > zephyr which comes from a dependency from cyrus21 (unstable).
No, it's an intrinsic dependency of zephyr. In particular, zephyr can use it to find the zephyr servers when the host manager starts up; if you actually have this installed, 'hesinfo zephyr sloc' will give you the names of the servers. zhm(8) suggests that it only does this if there are no command-line arguments to zhm, or in the case of Debian zephyr, that zhm_args is empty in /etc/default/zephyr-clients. > If I don't use Kerberos, how do I *not* install yet another DNS server? > > And could someone please explain what this does that regular Bind 9 > doesn't do.. why do I need it? AFAIK a Hesiod server is a perfectly normal DNS server; it just serves specially formatted txt records. Try, for example, 'dig -t txt zephyr.sloc.ns.athena.mit.edu'. There are a couple of examples in /usr/share/doc/libhesiod0/README. Using Hesiod with zephyr is orthogonal from using Kerberos; MIT uses both, but I've also used zephyr in installations with neither. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
