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From: eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick)
Subject: Perl and nameservers
Message-ID: <1990Mar19.214012.5546@me.toronto.edu>
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Organisation: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Distribution: comp
Date: 20 Mar 90 02:40:13 GMT

On a vanilla BSD 4.3 system (UMIPS-BSD) using a UofT diddled BIND, if
we want to use the nameserver (for gethostbyname() calls) we have to
link it with "-lresolv".  Currently, without compiling perl with
-lresolv, we only get info from /etc/hosts (as usual).  Compiling perl
with -lresolv (specified in Configure) produces tonnes of errors.  Is
that the way to do it?

Could be that our BIND was diddled in a way perl doesn't like.
Thanks.
--
Doug Eastick -- eastick@me.utoronto.ca