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From: Kai Vorma <vode@snakemail.hut.fi>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc: hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Getting linux netscape binary to work?
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
 > Someone (Soren?) posted something recently about how to make the Linux
 > version of netscape work properly with the 2.1 Linux emulator.  Could
 > you refresh my memory?  I searched the mailing list archives but could
 > only find Brian's question and Eric's answer (which consisted of
 > moving /etc/host.conf out of the way - not really the answer I was
 > looking for :-).

host.conf problem is solved by setting environment variable

  RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/compat/linux/etc/host.conf

and /compat/linux/etc/host.conf contains something like

order hosts, bind


..vode