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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!Norway.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-200.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA and resolver PROBLEM (gethostby*.getanswer) Date: 6 Jun 1996 18:33:38 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 30 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4p78a2$2ee@helena.MT.net> References: <slrn4qu6d8.3vl.map@marikit.iphil.net> <slrn4qvae1.9ft.map@marikit.iphil.net> <4p3ngp$4uu@verdi.nethelp.no> <slrn4rc8jg.pn4.map@marikit.iphil.net> Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:10615 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20790 In article <slrn4rc8jg.pn4.map@marikit.iphil.net>, Miguel A.L. Paraz <map@iphil.net> wrote: >About solving the gethostby*.getanswer problem, a certain poster wrote: > >> You should upgrade to BIND 4.9.3. > >I have upgraded my named shortly after this was released. >Or, is it the RESOLVER that needs changing? This will be harder -- >recompiling apps that depend on it? (-lresolv on FreeBSD) The resolver libraries in FreeBSD-current is already updated to support this, and last night I brought in the change to -stable to also support it, so any version of FreeBSD following 2.1R will support this. >On the other hand, if you make use of the classless DNS trick -- >you're assuming that everyone else has fixed their resolvers. >To those who haven't, you're another nameless IP address. Unfortunately, I don't have a choice in the matter. My ISP is changing my allocation from an entire class C to a subnetted class C, so I'm forced to use the classless DNS trick. (This was also a great motivator to get the fix into -stable. :) Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.mt.sri.com | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana. home #: (406) 443-7063 | A fly pole and a 4x4 Chevy truck = Heaven on Earth