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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: bin/5047: ipfw(8) IP address resolving problem if only /etc/hosts used
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The following reply was made to PR bin/5047; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc:  Subject: Re: bin/5047: ipfw(8) IP address resolving problem if only /etc/hosts used
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 14:22:58 PST

 Perhaps the real solution is to copy the code from gethostbydns.c which
 returns a fake hostent if the input looks like a parsable address into
 gethostbyname2(), so that gethostbyname()'s behavior is consistent no
 matter what the contents of /etc/host.conf .
 
   Bill