Trouble with DNS utils on AIX

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

	No OS vendor guarantees (or even suggests) that you can compile
	on a later revision of an operating system and have it run on a
	earlier revision.  They try very hard however to make the reverse
	work.

	Compile it on the platform you want to run it on.

	Mark


> Possibly.  I realize that I made an error earlier.  I compiled on 4.3.2 and a
> m
> running on 4.3.1.  I haven't yet found anything missing on the 4.3.1 machine,
> nor have I found mention of in6addr_any on deja, or elsewhere.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: af281 at city.ac.uk [mailto:af281 at city.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 4:52 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: Re: Trouble with DNS utils on AIX
> 
> 
> There were some fundamental differences between 4.3.1 & 4.3.2
> I had similar problems when I ytried to run some financial trading 
> programs on 4.3.2 which were compiled for 4.3.1(written in C++)
> 
> I had to recompile/re-install the whole code for 4.3.2 
> 
> Maybe that is you solution too!
> 
> Arv 
> 
> Treptow, Craig (Treptow.Craig at principal.com) wrote:
> : 	Hi!  I seem to be having a few issues and haven't found anything quite
> : like this in the list archives.
> 
> : 	I compiled BIND 8.2.2-p5 on AIX 4.3.1 and copied everything over to
> : another AIX 4.3.2 system.  The commands seem to work fine on the 4.3.1
> system
> : where they were compiled, but give errors on the 4.3.2 system I'm using to
> : test.  I suspect that something is loaded on one system and not the other,
> but
> : haven't figured out what that is yet.
> 
> : 	$ ./dig
> : 	exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program ./dig because of the following
> : errors:
> : 	        0509-023 Symbol in6addr_any in dig is not defined.
> : 	        0509-026 System error: Cannot run a file that does not have a
> : valid form
> : 	at.
> : 	$ 
> 
> : 	$ ./nslookup
> : 	exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program ./nslookup because of the
> : following errors:
> : 	        0509-023 Symbol in6addr_any in nslookup is not defined.
> : 	        0509-026 System error: Cannot run a file that does not have a
> : valid form
> : 	at.
> : 	$ 
> 
> : 	$ ./nsupdate
> : 	> update add tcat.liv.principal.com 60 in a 222.222.222.222
> : 	Segmentation fault(coredump)
> : 	$
> 
> : 	Any help is appreciated.
> 
> : 	Thanks!
> 
> : 	Craig 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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