mixing sun solaris's rpc with mit's rpc

fariba fariba at usc.edu
Fri May 27 15:22:53 EDT 2005


plus comparing solaris's netdb.h with the mit's: what should we replace 
gethostbyname, etc?
fariba wrote:

> hostent in netdb.h seems to be changed to rpcent in  mit 1.4.1 
> gssrpc/netdb.h.  in our routins we assign sockaddr_in.s_addr to 
> hostent.h_addr. rpcent does not have a such entry!
>
> Kevin Coffman wrote:
>
>>> has anybody used sun's rpc  and mit's rpc in a kerborised 
>>> application? the mit's rpc (gssrpc)  is to be used for encrypted  
>>> communication and the sun's rpc is used for non-encrypted 
>>> communication. we have such a program but we want to upgrade to 
>>> 5-1.4.1 version of kerberos,  but the header files are quite 
>>> different now and we run into compilation issues. whereas we did not 
>>> have a problem with prior kerberos releases. we use solaris 2.6 , 
>>> 2.8 and 2.9. also anybody ever used sun's rpc and kerberos to  
>>> communicate with  mit's kerberos server? i appreciate the help very 
>>> much. thank you.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Are you talking about differences between 1.3.x rpc headers and
>> 1.4.1 headers?
>>
>> What kind of problems are you having?  I'm looking at changes to our
>> version of the rpc library which we need for NFSv4.
>>
>>  
>>
>
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