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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!chx400!sicsun!disuns2!disuns2.epfl.ch!simon From: simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 386BSD gethostbyname change Message-ID: <SIMON.92Oct13143208@liasg2.epfl.ch> Date: 13 Oct 92 13:32:08 GMT References: <1992Oct5.125237.5267@slustl.slu.edu> <16807@ksr.com> Sender: news@disuns2.epfl.ch Organization: DI-LIA -- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Lines: 11 Nntp-Posting-Host: liasg2.epfl.ch In-reply-to: dean@ksr.com's message of 12 Oct 92 23:12:44 GMT X-Md4-Signature: 532ebfc2da049e6a0e823aabf5ad99a7 In article <16807@ksr.com> dean@ksr.com (Dean Anderson) writes: I think the best solution is to have a configuration file ala Dec's /etc/svcorder file, to determine in which order databases should be checked. This gives the administrator control over what happens, but has the disadvantage of requiring a file access. If you want to avoid the additional file access, you can define a new /etc/resolv.conf option (this is what SGI did in IRIX 4.0). -- Simon.