Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:23:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Getting linux netscape binary to work? Message-ID: <199512071823.LAA05163@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199512071238.AA02883@Sysiphos> from "Stefan Esser" at Dec 7, 95 01:38:40 pm
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> The resolver library in linux is based on "resolv+", > which was developed for SunOS originally, when Sun > only delivered YP as a means of finding IP addresses. > > This resolver library uses a slightly different format > of /etc/host.conf, but it could easily become another > supported (and in fcat the preferred, IMHO) format of > host.conf in FreeBSD, too. It occurs to me that a supposed "superset" resolver library should understand the hosts.conf file of the resolver it supposedly supercedes. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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