Why was res_query broken???
Chelsea Dyerman
cad1e at algol.astro.virginia.edu
Fri Feb 22 07:15:00 AEST 1991
Would someone please be so kind as to explain why the ability to use
aliases for hosts by use of the env-var HOSTALIASES was removed from the
res_query funtion in the resolv library? Its a very nice way to be able to
use aliases for otherwise long hostnames like one tends to find for places
such as cmu.edu and etc... I seem to recall that that ability exsists on
more or less all the flavors of UNIX 'cept SunOS...
Maybe there is a way to do that that the manpages dont disclose?
Here is how I used to do it:
setenv HOSTALIASES $home/.aliases
my .aliases file contained simple entries like
foobar foobar.acc.foo.bar.cmu.edu
etc...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
* Chelsea Ashley Dyerman
* casie at Soda.Berkeley.EDU
* Organization(s): Experimental Computing Facility
* University of California, Berkeley
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