Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 16:42:58 +0100 From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting linux netscape binary to work? Message-ID: <199512061542.AA07930@Sysiphos> In-Reply-To: Kai Vorma <vode@snakemail.hut.fi> "Re: Getting linux netscape binary to work?" (Dec 6, 15:47)
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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 <se@ZPR.Uni-Koeln.DE>
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