[bill@kayhay.com] libc/1625: resolver ignores "multi on" in /etc/host.conf

[H . J . Lu]

On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:29:16AM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> 
> Hi glibc folks,
> 
> we received the appended bug report.  IMHO we cannot support "multi on"
> at all with glibc (at least not in /etc/hosts) - and should remove the
> support for parsing "multi on" from res_hconf.c.  We parse this
> correctly - but never use it at all.
> 
> Does somebody see a way to fix this?
> 

I think I fixed it for libc 5 on Mar. 12, 1997. I will take a look
when I find time. But I am afraid it may not be easy.


H.J.