Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!GIPSI.GIPSI.FR!philipp From: philipp@GIPSI.GIPSI.FR (Philippe Prindeville) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: Network names via DNS Message-ID: <9003151359.AA13463@Gipsi.Gipsi.Fr> Date: 15 Mar 90 15:59:02 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 5 What about putting in 4.4BSD a new version of getnetent(3X) that uses the DNS a` la RFC-1101? Surely that would solve the chicken- and-the-egg problem, but we would have entropy against us... -Philip