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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: BIND named
Message-ID: <1054@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 89 19:43:58 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Is it that the gethostbyname(3) call needs to be recompiled for named,

Possibly.  I think nExt uses Yellow Pages, which means access to named
would normally go through the YP server.

>(Of course, this would be simpler if Unix had dynanamic linking.)

SunOS 4.0 has it, and the 4.0 mechanism will be the basis for the System
V Release 4.0 mechanism.  Sun has already used it to replace "gethost*"
with versions that talk directly to "named".  I seem to remember
somebody from NexT telling me that NeXt has dynamic linking as well.