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Date:      Tue, 20 Aug 1996 23:08:25 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: BSDI netscape and name resolving
Message-ID:  <199608202108.XAA18334@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <57vieedlrp.fsf@elsevier.co.uk> from Paul Richards at "Aug 20, 96 06:10:34 pm"

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As Paul Richards wrote:

> >From my experience all versions of Netscape have their own DNS code
> built into them and they always do direct DNS queries rather than
> using the OS's calls.

That's not surprising at all, since they are statically linked, and
the resolver is a library-level feature.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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