"There is no equivalent service for network names
yet. The full host and
I see that in usr/doc/smm/01.setup/5.t
Do you have usr/doc/smm/11.named ?
Have a look at the resolver(3) and resolver(5) and gethostbyname(3n)
and named(8) manual pages with 4.3BSD.
And see /usr/src/etc/named/doc
for the November 1983 RFC 883 specification.
(I haven't used that old one, but I did use a 1990 BIND 4.8.3 from
4.3BSD-Reno / 386BSD using NetBSD compat and documented some of its
behavior with modern DNS.)