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From: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann)
Subject: Re: Shared libraries are not necessary
Message-ID: <1991May21.235951.9286@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: Ziebmef home away from home
References: <196@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1991May16.135009@wsl.dec.com> <202@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> <1991May17.075555.29787@Think.COM> <211@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Date: 22 May 91 03:59:51 GMT
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mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:
| As you don't know enough about host name look up and accompanied 
| complexities of its management, don't say:
| >Note that an upgrade to use the DNS didn't *have* to include support for
| >multiple addresses.
| unless you want to be dishonest.

 Either I am misunderstanding something here, or I have been the victim
of a very clever and subtle plot, for I could swear that at least one
bind/named distribution allows you to compile a resolver library that
uses the old 4.2BSD one-IP-address struct hostents and that I compiled
and ran many applications happily using this library on Ultrix 2.2. In
fact, some of these applications are still running on some of our
machines (we upgrade only rarely, especially on machines used mostly
as X terminals these days). They all seem to work fine.

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