Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!mundamutti.cs.mu.OZ.AU!kre From: kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Shared libraries Message-ID: Date: 9 May 91 14:14:23 GMT References: <161@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1991May7.145228.423@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <163@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1991May8.173813.27064@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <166@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au Lines: 19 mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes: >And shared libraries dose *NOT* help the transition from /etc/hosts to DNS. It certainly does - you don't have to use the multi-address per host version of netdb.h in order to use the DNS. The effect will be that applications will see only one address for any particular name, and not any alternate addresses - but they will certainly still be using the DNS to look up host names, rather than the host table, which is certainly a help in the transition. If you want to investigate the BIND distributions in some detail in the area of the include files, READ-ME's and the resolver, you will see that this possibility is explicitly allowed. Finally, this certainly DOES work, I have (in the past) done exactly this. kre