From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 21 09:58:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA08357 for stable-outgoing; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:58:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from mercury.uniserve.com (mercury.uniserve.com [204.191.197.248]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA08348 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:58:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from haven.uniserve.com (haven.uniserve.com [198.53.215.121]) by mercury.uniserve.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id JAA15597; Thu, 21 Nov 1996 09:52:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 10:02:24 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Samplonius To: Chris Stenton cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WARNING gethostbydns brocken ? In-Reply-To: <32943038.7DC8@gnome.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Chris Stenton wrote: > There has just been a change made to gethostbydns. Can someone > confirm that this works. > > I have just done a make, make install on the source tree > and rebooted; which should have been enough to install the changes. > > However, ftp, telnet sendmail etc no longer work as I get a host name > lookup failure. The libresolv in stable seems broken right now. > I have not done a make world yet as this takes some hours and I > don't want anyone else to fall foul if there is a problem. > > If there is a problem can someone e-mail me a patch as I can't use > cvsup now! If you have the cvsup binary package you can, becasue it is statically linked. If you went throught the extra trouble of getting source and building a dynamic version, you should be able to get by with using an IP address. > > > Chris > Tom