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- From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
- Subject: Re: gethostbyname fails to return an address but otherwise works
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.023829.1209@decuac.dec.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 02:38:29 GMT
- References: <388@asylum.UUCP>
- Sender: news@decuac.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
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- >I've reached the limits of my ultrix expertise. If I could only look at
- >the source, I could figure out what's wrong, but ultrix isn't a *real* Unix.
- >Then again, real Unix isn't *real* anymore.
-
- UNIX(R) is what AT&T says it is. On the other hand, I personally
- believe that UN*X is anything that requires you pay AT&T for using. ;)
- By the former criterion ULTRIX isn't real UNIX(R) by the later, it sure
- is.
-
- >Does anyone know if it's possible to configure an ultrix system so that
- >gethostbyname returns aliases but not addresses?? Thanks in Advance.
-
- In /etc/svc.conf, do you have local,bind? In that case, it will
- search the hosts file before it uses DNS. If it searches the host file,
- and what you're looking for isn't in the DNS, or your resolver isn't
- set up quite right, you might see what you're seeing.
-
- mjr.
-