In message <199808162356.TAA10460@Twig.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>, der Mouse write
s:
>This is not really a change to resolv.conf.  It's a change to the
>networking code, so that 0.0.0.0 is no longer interpreted as "this
>host".  I don't recall details of why this was done, but it did provoke
>some discussion at the time, on at least one of the lists I'm on....

Ugh.  Surprising, to say the least.

But I guess it makes sense, and it's not hard to adapt to, once you know
about it.

-s