Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 10:18:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDI netscape and name resolving Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.960819101632.3881A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199608190948.TAA02310@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > Marc van Kempen stands accused of saying: > > > > I have run into a problem with the BSDI version of netscape and > > name resolving. > > the BSD/OS version of Netscape appears to ignore /etc/host.conf and > wants to talk to a nameserver. You will need to run a forwarding > nameserver on your firewall (or somewhere else) to be able to use it > to resolve external hosts. Yes. This is feature of our hacked resolver. The BIND 4.9.3 resolver (4.9.2 too?) and higher doesn't look at /etc/hosts at all. FreeBSD appears to use a hacked resolv+ resolver? Tom
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