On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 2:49 PM Will Senn <will.senn@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>

DNS post-dates 4.3BSD. The first DNS RFC was published in Nov 1987. 4.3BSD
was June 1986. The host table update was a thing, but my school was far
enough off the beaten path that by the time we were on the internet, DNS
was a thing...

Warner