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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!caen!nic.umass.edu!noc.near.net!news.cs.brandeis.edu!ST923150@pip.cc.brandeis.edu From: st923150@pip.cc.brandeis.edu (Benjamin A. Tober) Subject: Re: 386BSD gethostname() problems Message-ID: <1992Oct8.235447.14830@news.cs.brandeis.edu> Sender: news@news.cs.brandeis.edu (USENET News System) Reply-To: st923150@pip.cc.brandeis.edu Organization: Brandeis University References: <1992Oct8.044051.19526@fcom.cc.utah.edu>,<1992Oct8.190021.3275@news.tu-graz.ac.at> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 23:54:47 GMT Lines: 4 Yes, agreed, the way DEC does service database resolution _is_ better than the second best thing (probably the way Sun does it). I might be interested in coding up such an extension. It's reasonably trivial. -ben