steve@umiacs.umd.edu (10/15/89)
[ Doesn't anyone want to send network questions to my poor neglected Sun-Nets mailing list anymore? (-: SDM ] Roughly what's happening (though some of the fine details may be wrong, as I've never paused to figure out YP) is that gethostbyaddr() tries to bind to YP so that it can do address-to-name translation via YP. If that fails, the default is to fall back on /etc/hosts. (Using the new resolver-based libc should give different results; you'll now see connections to a nameserver sitting around.) Running netstat multiple times in rapid succession makes these entries multiply, too. -Steve Spoken: Steve Miller Domain: steve@umiacs.umd.edu UUCP: uunet!mimsy!steve Phone: +1-301-454-1808 USPS: UMIACS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742