[wplug] hosts on sunOS 5.8

[Poyner, Brandon]

You could also compile a custom resolver library to use your own hosts
file, and then make sure the application uses your library instead of
the system's.  SunOS 5.8 is so old I doubt it rolls the resolver into
libc, it's probably a stand alone libresolv.  It's easy enough to tell
by doing an 'ldd' on the application.  

Brandon Poyner
Network Engineer III
CCAC - College Office
412-237-3086
 
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wplug-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org 
> [mailto:wplug-bounces+bpoyner=ccac.edu at wplug.org] On Behalf 
> Of Drew from Zhrodague
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 4:07 PM
> To: Mike; General user list
> Subject: Re: [wplug] hosts on sunOS 5.8
> 
> > Is there any way to add to the hosts file (even 
> temporarily) without root
> > access?
> > We've got this sun box at work with a bunch of propritery 
> software on it,
> > and one of
> > the pieces won't take an ip address in one field without 
> being able to
> > resolve its hostname.
> 
> 
>  	You could use DNS to "lie" to the machine about hostnames. Hope 
> you have access to DNS!
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