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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!news.emf.net!gatech!swrinde!sgigate.sgi.com!sdd.hp.com!bone.think.com!paperboy.osf.org!loverso From: loverso@osf.org (John Robert LoVerso) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape 2.0b5 Question Date: 26 Jan 1996 19:15:18 GMT Organization: OSF Research Institute, Cambridge MA Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4eb986$5cr@paperboy.osf.org> References: <4e5ul1$p20@isnews.csc.calpoly.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coltsfoot.osf.org In article <4e5ul1$p20@isnews.csc.calpoly.edu>, Eric Collins <ecollins@kilby.elee.calpoly.edu> wrote: > I am running the linux version of Netscape 2.0b5 under 2.1.0 and I get > an error resolv+: "hosts" undefined > resolv+: "bind" undefined > > then netscape cannot do any name lookup. Has anyone else experience this Yes. Just add this line to the bottom of /etc/host.conf # For linux compat order bind hosts You'll still get the errors from the existing lines (which you need for BSD's resolver to work), but the statically-linked Linux resolver will work. John