Shared libraries

[Robert Elz]

mohta at necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes:

>And shared libraries dose *NOT* help the transition from /etc/hosts to DNS.

It certainly does - you don't have to use the multi-address per host
version of netdb.h in order to use the DNS.  The effect will be that
applications will see only one address for any particular name, and
not any alternate addresses - but they will certainly still be using
the DNS to look up host names, rather than the host table, which is
certainly a help in the transition.

If you want to investigate the BIND distributions in some detail in
the area of the include files, READ-ME's and the resolver, you will
see that this possibility is explicitly allowed.

Finally, this certainly DOES work, I have (in the past) done
exactly this.

kre