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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
From: Michael Imor <umji@cs.sunyit.edu>
Subject: Re: DNS Troubles w/Linux Apps 
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No luck.  I tried replacing all the o* calls (except orecv and osend). but
DNS lookups still fail.

Mike

At 01:21 PM 12/6/97 +1030, Mike Smith wrote:
>> No, I think this is a bug in the Linux emulation.  We've seen it with
>> StarOffice as well, but only on some systems (including mine).  So
>> far, nobody who has expeienced the problem has found it disturbing
>> enough to fix.
>
>I haven't had the time to get to this yet (story of my life 8(), 
>however this sounds very much similar to the problem that Amancio 
>tracked down with UDP emulation recently.
>
>As the DNS stuff that's at issue here also uses UDP, this 'feels' 
>relevant.  If you want to experiment with this, start replacing the 
>"o*" UDP-related calls in the linuxulator with their non-"o*" 
>counterparts (eg. orecvfrom -> recvfrom, etc.), as this was the fix in 
>the above case.
>
>If you *do* achieve any results with this, *please* let me know, as I 
>will eventually get to committing the relevant changes.
>
>mike
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