gnu emacs 18.54, gnus3.12, gethostbyname

[Jeremy Nussbaum]

I just bought up gnu emacs 18.54 (and 18.53) on an sgi 4d workstation 
under release 3.1 of the sgi os.  I had been using 18.51, compiled
on an earlier release of the os.  Under 18.51, gnus started up w/o trouble.
Now, as soon as it tries to connect to the nntp server it gets a
segmentation violation.  The traceback shows index.index called by
res_init.res_init called by res_search called by _gethostbyname_named
called by gethostbyname called by Fopen_network_stream.  I have verified
that I am still calling gethostbyname with the same valid hostname, and
that a small program can make the call successfully.  I don't actually
have the named up and running.  Any ideas on what might be causing the
segmentation violation, and what I might do to get around the problem?

Thanks in advance,
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