Subject: Bad System Call on host/ip resolution...
To: 'BSD Users' <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Graham, James <James.Graham@Schwab.COM>
List: current-users
Date: 04/15/1997 10:55:39
Greetings!

I'm running 1.2.1 which I had presumed to be stable, so it must be
something
I'm doing wrong.

/* just in case */
#undef CLUE

Any time I do host name resolution, be it thru telnet, rsh, rlogin, ftp
or whatever, I get

	Bad system call (core dumped)

I can't be sure, since I can't reach my box right now, but would a
missing
"domain" line from /etc/resolv.conf cause this?

nslookup, btw, seems to work just fine.
rsh and ftp can use IP addresses; telnet still dumps core.

This is regardless of whether I reference a host in /etc/hosts or if
it needs to do name resolution.

#ifndef CLUE
#pragma "exec /usr/games/rogue"
#endif

The system call hits --More--

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