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From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: patch for <arpa/nameser.h>
Message-ID: <1993Mar8.004851.22023@coe.montana.edu>
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Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 00:48:51 GMT
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In article <1ne27cINN60m@ftp.uu.net> sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>
>I  ran into this problem while compiling something (probably MMDF, but
>I forget exactly what).  This patch should be applied to
>/usr/include/arpa/nameser.h, as well as /usr/src/include/arpa/nameser.h.

Needs to be done, but that brought up something I thought was great.

Under ultrix, you have a file that allows you to specify where to go
for name resolving information.  This is a good thing, IMHO, and
Bill Wisner hacked up resolv to add this functionality.

This package, resolv+, can be had at
ftp.uu.net:networking/ip/dns/resolv+.tar.Z includes new version of nameser.h
and a couple others.  I recommend it highly.  However, unless he has gotten
the patches I sent him for 386BSD and Ultrix in, it will require this same
sort of patch that Sean just posted.

Nate

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