From owner-freebsd-hackers  Thu Dec  7 08:38:42 1995
Return-Path: owner-hackers
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA26639
          for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 08:38:42 -0800 (PST)
Received: from feephi.phofarm.com (root@feephi.phofarm.com [204.242.60.2])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA26627
          for <hackers@FreeBSD.org>; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 08:38:35 -0800 (PST)
Received: (from dzerkel@localhost) by feephi.phofarm.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA00862; Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:39:47 -0500
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:39:47 -0500
From: "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@feephi.phofarm.com>
Message-Id: <199512071639.LAA00862@feephi.phofarm.com>
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE
Subject: Re: Getting linux netscape binary to work?
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org
Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Stefan Esser wrote:
> 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.
>
...
>
> The long term fix should (IMHO) be to either make the
> FreeBSD resolver understand a host.conf file of 
>
> order	hosts bind nis
>
> or integrate the full resolv+ functionality (which is
> controlled by the "trim","multi","nospoof" and "alert"
> host.conf option lines).

I would like to look into integrating resolv+ into FreeBSD.
I have pulled down the code for resolv+-2.1.1 and will
begin examining the differences.

Danny J. Zerkel
Photon Farmers
http://www.phofarm.com/