Re: NS resolver

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Sun, 2 Aug 1998 12:28:31 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Abhijit Lahiri wrote:

> This is a bit off-topic and I am sorry for the inconvenience caused.
>
> I just wanted to know the part of kernel that calls the NS to resolv
> when a network connection is made through FQDN.

It is more than a bit off-topic, since name resolving is done
entirely in userspace, by the C library (/lib/libc.so).

See 'man resolv' for all the info you need...

succes,

Rik.
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