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From: ash@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Art Harkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: What's "supposed" to be in HP/UX...?
Message-ID: <4310154@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
Date: 13 Feb 91 18:26:29 GMT
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> / comp.sys.hp / jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) /  Feb 11, 1991 /


> I have a small problem of ignorance :^).  Here in one of our labs we have
> an HP9000/360 running HP/UX 6.5 B.  I realize that's not the latest version,
> but that's what its got.  I am trying to build the 'PP' X.400 email system,
> and it has a SMTP gateway which requires internet nameservice.
> 
> The problem is that I can't find the stuff relating to the RESOLVER(3X)
> routines, i.e. res_mkquery(), res_send(), res_init() and the related
> include files, etc.
> 
> My question is, where does this library usually come from.  Is it supposed
> to be in HP/UX, or is it a BSD-ism, or is it available elsewhere?
> 

The RESOLVER(3X) routines, that you are refering to, are NOW part of the
libc.a library. Unfortunately they were not available in HP-UX 6.5.
The resolver (and the nameserver - BIND) were included in the HP-UX 7.0
release.

Art Harkin
Hewlett Packard