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From: carlson@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: BIND named
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Date: 19 Feb 89 02:16:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxh.cso.uiuc.edu!carlson    Feb 18 20:16:00 1989


One question on name servers:
I have got the Berkeley Domain server daemon (BIND) named to run,
and the debugging output indicates that it is receiving info from 
higher-up servers, but none of the programs seem to be able to
access the daemon.
Is it that the gethostbyname(3) call needs to be recompiled for named,
or have I overlooked something?

Another reason for source code--I may not want to modify it, but 
looking at it will tell me the actions needed to correct a problem.
Also, gethostbyname, etc, those library routines and the utility
programs that depend on it could be recompiled
WITHOUT AFFECTING DEVELOPERS' APPLICATIONS AT ALL!
In this kind of a case, I may want to make a minor and transparent change
(by obtaining the proper network routines), but it would require a large 
amount of source code and recompiling to install the change.
(Of course, this would be simpler if Unix had dynanamic linking.)