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From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta)
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Subject: Re: Shared libraries
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Date: 10 May 91 06:04:25 GMT
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In article <1991May9.135637.5408@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
	shore@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Melinda Shore) writes:

>>With the introduction of DNS, struct hostent, a structure returned by
>>gethostbyname(), was changed. A new field, h_addr_list, was added and
>>an old field, h_addr, was replaced by a #define.

>That change was introduced with 4.3BSD, not with dns.

The change was introduced with 4.3BSD to meet the requirements of DNS.

You should have checked the line of h_addr_list in /usr/include/netdb.h
of 4.3BSD.

As I quoted in my previous posting, the words "name server" can be seen
within the comment of the line.

						Masataka Ohta