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- From: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Looking for resolv.conf related patch
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.171950.11066@eua.ericsson.se>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 17:19:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.151058.4678@clark.dgim.doc.ca> don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan) writes:
- >I seem to remember hearing there is a patch for SunOS, so it will check multiple
- >nameserver entries in /etc/resolv.conf before giving up.
- >
- >Unfortunatly I didn't save this info, and I cannot find it again now. Nor can
- >I locate the appropriate patch in the INDEX I have found.
- >
- >Does anyone know the number of this patch?
-
- Yes, it's 100465-01, and incidentally was mentioned in the "enhanced"
- README for building a new shared libc I posted to this group the other
- day (Message-ID <1992Dec28.144904.11625@eua.ericsson.se>) - it consists
- of a new res_send.o module for libresolv.a.
-
- Unfortunately it is of little use for other purposes than building and
- using a libc for DNS, since the only programs distributed with SunOS
- that use res_send.o, sendmail.mx and ypserv, are statically linked wrt
- to this library (of course - there is no libresolv.so.*).
-
- N.B. though that there is only one case where the resolver "gives up" as
- described above - when the *host* in question is up, but the name server
- isn't running on it - or more precisely, when a connection attempt
- results in "connection refused" (as opposed to e.g. a timeout). Of
- course, this is bad enough...
-
- --Per Hedeland
- per@erix.ericsson.se or
- per%erix.ericsson.se@sunic.sunet.se or
- ...uunet!erix.ericsson.se!per
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