From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Dec 5 13:14:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA09530 for emulation-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 13:14:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation) Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu (helmholtz.salk.edu [198.202.70.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA09525 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 13:14:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bartol@salk.edu) Received: from dale.salk.edu (dale [198.202.70.112]) by helmholtz.salk.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA14805; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 13:13:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 13:13:55 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Bartol To: dmaddox@scsn.net cc: Greg Lehey , emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS Troubles w/Linux Apps In-Reply-To: <19971205160142.00749@scsn.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 5 Dec 1997, Charlie Root wrote: > 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? > Yes, Linux's format complies with the same RFC#blah that FreeBSD's /etc/hosts file does. Tom