Help needed NSUPDATE issue Solaris 8

[Brad Knowles]

At 12:49 AM -0700 9/10/01, Sivakumar Thiyagarajan wrote:

>      BIND's nsupdate seems to be unstable on on Solaris
>  8.
>     Firstly  is returns with an exit status of 1
>  regardless of the success or failure of the operation.

	Hmm.  Did you compile with gcc or the vendor provided C compiler? 
If you used gcc, be aware that it is incapable of producing anything 
remotely resembling proper code for 64-bit SPARC/Solaris, and is not 
supported by the BIND developers for use with BIND on 64-bit 
SPARC/Solaris.

	So, you'd either need to "upgrade" to Solaris 7 in 32-bit mode, 
dump gcc, or be willing and able to do a lot more debugging to help 
the BIND developers understand whether this is a compiler bug or a 
bug in BIND.


	Note that the cross-platform stateful firewall package "ipfilter" 
completely refuses to compile with gcc on 64-bit Solaris for 
precisely the reasons given above -- gcc just can't hack it.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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