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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Getting linux netscape binary to work?
To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:23:16 -0700 (MST)
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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
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