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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
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Subject: Re: ULTRIX 3.0 (netdb.h)
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Date: 30 Jan 89 20:22:56 GMT
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>From article <76661@felix.UUCP>, by hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall):
> I checked the man page for gethostent, and they're still using the
> old-style hostent structure in netdb.h that has the single dimensional
> h_addr... I wonder how their sendmail handles MX records? (hmmm... I wish
> I was in my office where the manuals are... I wonder IF it handles MX
> records...)

Oh, no, you're kidding...augghh!!

Maybe they did this so that when we replace their BIND, sendmail, ftp,
etc. with 4.3BSD versions, we'll still have to go through the usual
gyrations to make them compile compatibly...  (only 1/2 :-))

Did you check the netdb.h file itself.  Hopefully it's just the manual
page that's out of date...

Paul DuBois
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