From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 6 07:53:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA23793 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 07:53:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA23179 for ; Wed, 6 Dec 1995 07:45:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA07930 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.org); Wed, 6 Dec 1995 16:42:58 +0100 Message-Id: <199512061542.AA07930@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 16:42:58 +0100 In-Reply-To: Kai Vorma "Re: Getting linux netscape binary to work?" (Dec 6, 15:47) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting linux netscape binary to work? Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Dec 6, 15:47, Kai Vorma wrote: } Subject: Re: Getting linux netscape binary to work? } 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 I've pointed this out several times over the last few weeks, too. How about having FreeBSD use a resolv+ style configuration file, too ? It is a much better concept than is currently used, and AFAIK the sources to resolv+ (as developed for SunOS, when Sun considered YP the only tool to map host names to IP adresses :) are distributable without restrictions. Anybody going to do it ? (Spare time is a very scarce ressource for me, currently :( I'll look into this as soon as I have the time, if nobody else beats me on that :) Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se