Shared libraries are not necessary

[Chris Torek]

I thought I might do something silly like inject a fact or two
into this, ah, `discussion'. :-)

The following two log messages were extracted from the master SCCS
files for the BSD distributions.  They show exactly when (a) the name
server was put into effect and (b) multiple IP addresses were added.
In fact, the interface change for multiple IP addresses was done almost
six months after changing to name servers.

D 5.5	85/09/11 16:46:46	bloom	17	16	00049/00031/00132
implement multiple address return from gethostby* routines

D 4.9	85/03/25 13:51:20	ralph	10	9	00110/00089/00028
version which uses resolver & name server.

Shared libraries are neither a panacea nor completely valueless.  Any
attempt to `prove' one or the other will only stir up more flames.
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