Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 13:38:40 +0100 From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting linux netscape binary to work? Message-ID: <199512071238.AA02883@Sysiphos> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> "Getting linux netscape binary to work?" (Dec 6, 2:49)
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On Dec 6, 2:49, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: } Subject: Getting linux netscape binary to work? } Someone (Soren?) posted something recently about how to make the Linux } version of netscape work properly with the 2.1 Linux emulator. Could } you refresh my memory? I searched the mailing list archives but could } only find Brian's question and Eric's answer (which consisted of } moving /etc/host.conf out of the way - not really the answer I was } looking for :-). export RESOLV_HOST_CONF=/compat/linux/etc/host.conf But please read on ... :) I had replied several times before to this question (and as early as one month ago): The resolver library in linux is based on "resolv+", which was developed for SunOS originally, when Sun only delivered YP as a means of finding IP addresses. 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. You can use the "RESOLV_HOST_CONF" environment variable to make "resolv+" use a different configuration file (and as long as the one in FreeBSD is incompatible, it might be a good idea to have RESOLV_HOST_CONF be set to "/compat/linux/etc/host.conf"). 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). BTW: My version of the sources of resolv+-2.1 states that it is a patched version of the BIND 4.8.3 resolver library, and mentions John DiMarco, Patrick Gosling, Chris Metcalf and J. Porter Clark as contributors. 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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