BIND-IRIX-PORT home page

Latest status: This page is no longer really being updated. This is because:

• I no longer work at SGI, and so, while I do still have some access to IRIX systems, it's much more limited than it used to be, and my focus is very much elsewhere (in terms of both BIND and IRIX).
• As I understand it, the ISC now has the access that they need to IRIX machines in order to maintain BIND on IRIX.

If you still find this page helpful, or otherwise want to contact me for some reason, please feel free, but be aware that this has dropped significantly below my radar.

-- David Lindes, 2001-03-06

(The rest of this page is left unaltered for now, for reference purposes in case anyone needs it.)

Hi all,

As many of you have likely noticed, there hasn't been much in the way of updates here, and for a while, releases of BIND from ISC did not compile on IRIX. I believe I'm back to this, so please send me mail if you're still having problems. I tried 8.2.1 on IRIX 6.5 with gcc from freeware, and it worked without incident (a few warnings, but no errors), so it looks like someone got a fix in... Thanks! And sorry for my lack of support, but again, I think I'm back in the swing of things. (A month off really helped. :-)

As the maintainer of the SGI IRIX port of ISC BIND, I figure it's my duty to put out some information about current issues, so that you can get patches and help without having to wait for the next version of BIND to be released.

Please note that I am only the maintainer for the IRIX port of versions 8.1 and later of BIND. I did not write, nor do I consider myself to be commited to help support, earlier versions of BIND, or BIND on other operating systems. I may be able and/or willing to help with such, but I make no promises here. :-)

Folowing is a list of issues that I know of that exist with the 8.1.2 (Note: I do not currently have a list of issues for 8.2.1, I'll be working on that shortly, though) version of the IRIX port of BIND. If I have a patch for that particular issue, you can follow the link for that specific issue, or check the patches directory, which contains all the patches that I currently have available.

• make doesn't work, bailing out quickly. This can be one of at least two things, see this page for more details.
• ndc should accept /etc/config/named.options file (patch pending)
• BIND does not correctly detect IP aliasing (so the listen-on configuration directive doesn't work with such aliases, and it doesn't pick up those addresses with the default listening, either.) A fix for this is in the works, but it's slow going. If you'd like to help with this, let me know, and I can give you a little something to get it started.

  We finally have a fix for this! With many thanks to Pedro Miguel Zeferino, we finally have a fix for this issue! Please read the lead-in information contained therein, but otherwise, happy aliasing. :-)

There are currently no patches available for BIND version 8.1.2. If for some strange reason you want to see the info for 8.1.1, see the BIND 8.1.1 version of this document.