From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 21 09:22:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA03174 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:22:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (root@skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA03163 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:22:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by skiddaw.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA15487 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 17:21:49 +0100 Received: from tees.elsevier.co.uk (actually host tees) by snowdon with SMTP (PP); Wed, 21 Aug 1996 17:21:48 +0100 Received: (from dpr@localhost) by tees.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) id RAA01715; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 17:20:53 +0100 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: BSDI netscape and name resolving References: <199608202108.XAA18334@uriah.heep.sax.de> From: Paul Richards Date: 21 Aug 1996 17:20:53 +0100 In-Reply-To: J Wunsch's message of Tue, 20 Aug 1996 23:08:25 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <57u3twso7u.fsf@elsevier.co.uk> Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.30 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch writes: > 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. > Doesn't BSDI's resolver use /etc/hosts.conf? If it does then it can't simply be that the library is statically linked or it would work as expected under FreeBSD. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155