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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Environment variable HOSTALIASES
Keywords: HOSTALIASES
Message-ID: <1991Feb28.233409.17952@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 91 23:34:09 GMT
References: <1991Feb28.231939.28562@engin.umich.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1991Feb28.231939.28562@engin.umich.edu> mjo@irie.ais.org (Mike O'Connor) writes:
> 
>On many flavors of BSD 4.3, I can set an environment variable called
>HOSTALIASES to point to a file.  Example (under csh):

 This is implemented by the resolver library routines.

>1.  I wish to implement this on an IBM PC RT running BSD 4.3.  How do I
>go about doing this?  The procedure above doesn't seem to work on this

 You build a suitable resolver library, then recompile everything that
needs it.  (If you are lucky there is some sort of dynamic link library,
and rebuilding that library will fix everything ???)

>2.  I'd love to RTFM on the subject, but I have no idea of where to
>start.  Where are the relevant subjects I should "man"?

 man 3 resolver
 man 8 named
	and various things referenced from these.

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