HP-UX Internet Services Administrator's Guide (August 2003)
Internet Services Overview
Introduction to Internet Services
Chapter 1 21
The Sendmail Utility
The Sendmail serviceworks with your network mailers (forexample, elm
and mailx) to perform internetwork mail routing among UNIX and
non-UNIX hosts on the network. It allows you to exchange mail
messages with other hosts on the local area network via gateways. Type
man 1M sendmail at the HP-UX prompt for more information.
See “Installing and Configuring Internet Services” on page 23 for
information on installing and configuring Sendmail.
See the HP-UX Mailing Services Administrator’s Guide for detailed
information on Mailing Services at the URL
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/index.html#Internet%20Se
rvices.
BIND
BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) implements the Domain Name
System (DNS). BIND is a distributed database service that resolves host
names and enables internetwork mail. See the HP-UX IP Address and
Client Management Administrator’s Guide at the URL
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/index.html#Internet%20Se
rvices, or type man 1M named. at the HP-UX prompt for more
information.
DHCP
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is an extension of bootp
that defines a protocol for passing configurationinformation to hosts on a
network. It automatically allocates reusable network addresses and
reduces the cost of managing IPv4 and IPv6 nodes in environments
where administrators require more control over the allocation of
addresses. See the HP-UX IP Address and Client Management
Administrator’s Guide at the URL
http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/netcom/index.html#Internet%20Se
rvices, or type man 1M dhcpv6d at the HP-UX prompt for more
information.