diff --git a/scsh/syscalls1.c b/scsh/syscalls1.c
index c247c7f..c171bef 100644
--- a/scsh/syscalls1.c
+++ b/scsh/syscalls1.c
@@ -12,7 +12,18 @@
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>		/* for O_RDWR */
 #include <sys/stat.h>
+
 #include <netdb.h>
+/* This losage brought to you by Solaris and BIND */
+/* We thank Solaris for forcing users to get a new BIND */
+/* We thank BIND for blowing away the Solaris includea for MAXHOSTNAMELEN */
+#ifndef MAXHOSTNAMELEN		
+#include <arpa/nameser.h>
+#ifndef MAXHOSTNAMELEN		
+#define MAXHOSTNAMELEN      MAXDNAME
+#endif
+#endif
+
 #include <pwd.h>
 #include <sys/param.h> /* For gethostname() */
 #include <errno.h>