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From: phil@pex.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: name-resolver shared library on uunet
Keywords: Networks
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Date: 12 Oct 89 18:54:20 GMT
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Hokay......I retrieved the shared library from uunet that uses the name
resolver for gethostby* calls ("libc_resolv.so.sun3").  I installed it as
per the instructions (I've even rebooted a few times since then, so I know
I'm using the new library everywhere).  Now all the network
programs---telnet, rlogin, ftp---know about all the hostnames.  Except
rcp.  So I found a file called "rcp.sun3" on uunet.  Interesting....I
thought.  I retrieved it and tried it.  Still "host unknown".

Now initially I thought that this was the result of "rcp" calling the c
library routine "rexec" to get its work done: maybe the rexec in this
shared library was still calling the wrong gethostby* routines.  But
"rlogin", as I recall, also uses "rexec".  And it works.  So what's the
scoop here?  I'd like to get this to work (I much prefer this method to
using "makedbm -b").

		William LeFebvre
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University
		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>