From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 21 14:59:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA02899 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 14:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.xtalwind.net (h-adoption.x31.infi.net [206.27.115.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA02885 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 14:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.xtalwind.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA01022; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 17:57:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 17:57:29 -0400 (EDT) From: jack To: Paul Richards cc: Joerg Wunsch , FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: BSDI netscape and name resolving In-Reply-To: <57u3twso7u.fsf@elsevier.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 21 Aug 1996, Paul Richards wrote: > 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? The BSDI box that I'm on now, telnetted to my FreeBSD box at home, uses /etc/hosts -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------