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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sol.net!daily-planet.execpc.com!homer.alpha.net!uwm.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!muir.math.niu.edu!corn.cso.niu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!news!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!bone.think.com!paperboy.osf.org!loverso From: loverso@osf.org (John Robert LoVerso) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: linux-emu and network Date: 24 Jan 1996 19:05:43 GMT Organization: OSF Research Institute, Cambridge MA Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4e5vu7$m3e@paperboy.osf.org> References: <4e2dk4$7k5@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coltsfoot.osf.org In article <4e2dk4$7k5@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>, Lars Hofhansl <lars@hboix1.enet.dec.com> wrote: > whenever I start a linux-binary that does some network related stuff > I get messages like: > resolv+: hosts unknwon command > resolv+: bind unknown command (or the like - I forgot the exact message) > (on the screen via stderror) I just solved this problem on one of my machines. The problem is that the /etc/host.conf file has an incompatible format better Linux's "resolv+" and the standard BSD resolver. BSD wants this: bind hosts and Linux wants this: order bind hosts You can add the "order" line to the end /etc/host.conf and then the Linux netscape (with Java) and xdoom will work and be able to resolve hostnames. You'll still get those two annoying messages when you run Linux apps that use the resolver, but at least everything will work. John