From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 8 06:00:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA06228 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 06:00:47 -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 GAA06202 for ; Fri, 8 Dec 1995 06:00:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA21902 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.org); Fri, 8 Dec 1995 14:36:47 +0100 Message-Id: <199512081336.AA21902@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 14:36:46 +0100 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert "Re: Getting linux netscape binary to work?" (Dec 7, 11:23) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: Getting linux netscape binary to work? Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Dec 7, 11:23, Terry Lambert wrote: } Subject: Re: Getting linux netscape binary to work? } > 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. Yes, of course! That was what I meant with: "another supported (and in fact preferred) format". The commands "nis", "bind" and "hosts" should be implemented in such a way, that they append to the "order" list ... That's easy, I suppose :) 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