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To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: marc@bowtie.nl (Marc van Kempen), hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: BSDI netscape and name resolving
References: <199608190948.TAA02310@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
Date: 20 Aug 1996 18:10:34 +0100
In-Reply-To: Michael Smith's message of Mon, 19 Aug 1996 19:18:00 +0930 (CST)
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Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> writes:
>
> Marc van Kempen stands accused of saying:
> >
> > I have run into a problem with the BSDI version of netscape and
> > name resolving.
>
> the BSD/OS version of Netscape appears to ignore /etc/host.conf and
> wants to talk to a nameserver. You will need to run a forwarding
> nameserver on your firewall (or somewhere else) to be able to use it
> to resolve external hosts.
>From my experience all versions of Netscape have their own DNS code
built into them and they always do direct DNS queries rather than
using the OS's calls.
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