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Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 16:01:42 -0500
From: Charlie Root <root@scsn.net>
To: Tom Bartol <bartol@salk.edu>
Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, dmaddox@scsn.net, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: DNS Troubles w/Linux Apps
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On Fri, Dec 05, 1997 at 08:55:06AM -0800, Tom Bartol wrote:
> 
> We've been seeing similar behaviour with Matlab.  We came up with a
> workaround by creating a /compat/linux/etc/hosts file and creating entries
> in that file (in the standard /etc/hosts format, of course) for all the
> machines we need Matlab to reach.  
> 
> Tom

    I'd like to try that.  I've never used Linux, though; is the /etc/hosts
format the same as FreeBSD?