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From: Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] 4.3 BSD network name resolution
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2022 15:48:59 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0C7FF60E-D7B1-434A-87D1-35E1102D7DC6@gmail.com> (raw)

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I'm working through 4.3BSD setup and configuration and came across this:



"There is no equivalent service for network names yet. The full host and network name databases are normally derived from a file retrieved from Internet Network Information Center at SRI... use gettable to retrieve the NIC host database and htable to convert it to the format used by the libraries."



Does this mean I should expect functionality like resolv.conf and ping yahoo.com not to work in 4.3, or by some miracle is gettable still a functional system?



Will


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             reply	other threads:[~2022-01-29 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-29 21:48 Will Senn [this message]
2022-01-29 21:56 ` Henry Bent
2022-01-29 22:08   ` Henry Bent
2022-01-29 23:02     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2022-01-29 22:13 ` Warner Losh
2022-01-29 22:25   ` George Michaelson
2022-01-29 22:35     ` Erik E. Fair
2022-01-29 22:59 ` Clem Cole
2022-01-29 23:24   ` Phil Budne
2022-01-30  0:09 ` Jeremy C. Reed

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