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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: 386BSD gethostbyname change
Message-ID: <1992Oct13.175812.19636@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
References: <1992Oct5.125237.5267@slustl.slu.edu> <16807@ksr.com> <SIMON.92Oct13143208@liasg2.epfl.ch>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 17:58:12 GMT
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In article <SIMON.92Oct13143208@liasg2.epfl.ch> simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen) writes:
>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).
This seems to me to be the most reasonable... I liked the idea of it being
configurable, but hated the idea of an additional file open/read/close on
a failure to resolve. I distinctly liked the idea of searching the local
/etc/hosts first, since Sun seems to do this and I'm happy with my Sun
machines, but I understand the argument for configurability. This seems
to adequately address all the issues. If there are no objections, I'll
code it up and set it loose on an unsuspecting world. 8-).
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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