phil@pex.eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre) (10/13/89)
Hokay......I retrieved the shared library from uunet that uses the name
resolver for gethostby* calls ("libc_resolv.so.sun3"). I installed it as
per the instructions (I've even rebooted a few times since then, so I know
I'm using the new library everywhere). Now all the network
programs---telnet, rlogin, ftp---know about all the hostnames. Except
rcp. So I found a file called "rcp.sun3" on uunet. Interesting....I
thought. I retrieved it and tried it. Still "host unknown".
Now initially I thought that this was the result of "rcp" calling the c
library routine "rexec" to get its work done: maybe the rexec in this
shared library was still calling the wrong gethostby* routines. But
"rlogin", as I recall, also uses "rexec". And it works. So what's the
scoop here? I'd like to get this to work (I much prefer this method to
using "makedbm -b").
William LeFebvre
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University
<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>