Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!motcsd!lance From: lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Multiple IP addresses (was Re: Shared libraries) Message-ID: <3904@motcsd.csd.mot.com> Date: 10 May 91 01:09:23 GMT References: <1991May4.132632.13885@mp.cs.niu.edu> <161@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1991May7.145228.423@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <4646@skye.ed.ac.uk> Distribution: usa Organization: Motorola CSD, Cupertino CA Lines: 18 richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: >In article <1991May7.145228.423@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> shore@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes: >>and it is absolutely not true that it is common for >>a host to have multiple IP addresses. >Any host acting as a gateway between networks is likely to. There are 7 >such hosts within 50 feet of me. Any host with TCP/IP derived from BSD 4.2 or 4.3 has at least two: one for Ethernet and one for the loopback network. It was my understanding that shared libraries save many users of SUNos much pain because they allow popping in a user-developed DNS lookup handler that actually work. Has SUN finally got this one right? Lance