Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 00:15:32 -0500 From: brianc@netrover.com (Brian Campbell) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: libc Message-ID: <Mutt.19961127001532.brianc@netrover.com>
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There have been a number of people who've noticed it's not a good idea to link libc.3 and libresolv.2 together in an application. irc, for example either just faults or fails to resolve any addresses. I never saw anyone reply with reasons why this was so. Further, it appears that someone (a new RFC? what number?) decided, in libc.so.3, that underscores, slashes and who-knows-what-else are invalid characters in DNS. So a lot of time gets wasted (on traceroute or netstat) resolving names that the resolver code in libc will refuse to display. Has anyone bothered to tell sprintlink or mci of this "change"?
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