This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!) avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long. Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been insane otherwise.
try and silence "manck". ncurses, rpc, and some of the gnu stuff are still a big mess, however.
Use hosts.byname as the alias for 'hosts' instead of hosts.byaddr.