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Date:      Thu, 21 Nov 1996 10:02:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WARNING gethostbydns brocken ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.961121095837.18788A-100000@haven.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <32943038.7DC8@gnome.co.uk>

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On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Chris Stenton wrote:

> There has just been a change made to gethostbydns. Can someone
> confirm that this works.
> 
> I have just done a make, make install on the source tree
> and rebooted; which should have been enough to install the changes.
> 
> However, ftp, telnet sendmail etc no longer work as I get a host name
> lookup failure.

  The libresolv in stable seems broken right now.

> I have not done a make world yet as this takes some hours and I 
> don't want anyone else to fall foul if there is a problem.
> 
> If there is a problem can someone e-mail me a patch as I can't use
> cvsup now!

  If you have the cvsup binary package you can, becasue it is statically
linked.  If you went throught the extra trouble of getting source and
building a dynamic version, you should be able to get by with using an IP
address.

> 
> 
> Chris
> 

Tom




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