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From: rees@dabo.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: named and /lib/libresolv
Message-ID: <1990Mar23.190825.3923@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 90 19:08:25 GMT
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In article <1990Mar22.212921.17536@terminator.cc.umich.edu>,
rees@dabo.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees) writes:
> 
> I found this confusing too.  First of all, you don't have to do anything
> special at all to get the correct version of gethostbyfoo().

I forgot to mention the most important part.  You have to run nmconfig,
usually from /etc/rc.local .  Again, this is inadequately documented on the
man pages.  It's quite well documented in the TCP/IP book, so the man page
omission is more likely Berkeley's than Apollo's.