#: 21313 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    19-Dec-95  13:19:57
Sb: #21310-#nameserver
Fm: Neal Wilsey 73757,2144
To: Jost Eberbach 73502,2041 (X)

Jost,

     Thank you for your reply.  Yes, my hosts file is in the ETC directory.
From your reply, I gather that the OS-9 implementation of TCP/IP does not make
use of the nameserver feature that has been in general use since 1991.  Most
unix systems have a file named resolve.cnf that contains the information needed
to get the IP address from the nameserver.  Some client systems such as NCSA
Telnet and MacTCP place the domain and nameserver information in a
configuration file so there is no  need for a hosts file to exist on the local
computer.  I noted when I scanned the SOURCES file there was a UDP  port
associated with nameserver but found that there was no RESOLVE file.  I was
hoping to avoid downloading the nameserver hosts file during generation of the
inetdb data module.  Our institution's local hosts file is over 200K and the
general hosts file is almost 1M!  With the proliferation of networks, I really
need to use the nameserver.

Neal

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