Date: 21 Aug 1996 17:20:53 +0100 From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: BSDI netscape and name resolving Message-ID: <57u3twso7u.fsf@elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: J Wunsch's message of Tue, 20 Aug 1996 23:08:25 %2B0200 (MET DST) References: <199608202108.XAA18334@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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
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