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From: bostic@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: aliases in .rhosts
Message-ID: <21825@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 13:48:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 17 13:48:07 1987
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References: <11488@orchid.waterloo.edu> <21654@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <11660@orchid.waterloo.edu>
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Summary: the resolver can't return alias lists

In article <11660@orchid.waterloo.edu>, gamiddleton@orchid.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton) writes:
> With the new resolver routines,
> you don't get any aliases except the name it was called with.  Is there any
> way of getting the resolver to return an alias list?  Then I could just
> call gethostbyname() once, and compare to that list.

The resolver cannot return a complete alias list because the information
is no longer available in a single place, e.g. all of the aliases may not
even be present on a single machine.  Aliases are much more important on
the command line; as we're talking about setting up a file, once, it doesn't
seem unreasonable for the user to be required to enter the complete name.

--keith