diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 85aee01e4..6f90fce51 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2003-08-24  David Shaw  <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
+
+	* configure.ac: Check for getaddrinfo.  Don't bother to check for
+	EGD libs since we need to have the netlibs regardless because of
+	the agent socket.
+
 2003-07-10  David Shaw  <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
 
 	* configure.ac: configure.ac: Check for sigset_t and struct
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index b0191b2cb..c8fe36a6c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -732,7 +732,7 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS(strerror stpcpy strsep strlwr tcgetattr strtoul mmap)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(strcasecmp strncasecmp ctermid times)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(memmove gettimeofday getrusage setrlimit clock_gettime)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(atexit raise getpagesize strftime nl_langinfo setlocale)
-AC_CHECK_FUNCS(waitpid wait4 sigaction sigprocmask rand pipe stat)
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS(waitpid wait4 sigaction sigprocmask rand pipe stat getaddrinfo)
 AC_REPLACE_FUNCS(mkdtemp)
 AC_CHECK_TYPES([struct sigaction, sigset_t],,,[#include <signal.h>])
 
@@ -891,8 +891,6 @@ for rndmod in $random_modules "" ; do
     rndegd)
          AC_DEFINE(USE_RNDEGD,1, 
                   [Defined if the EGD based RNG should be used.])
-         EGDLIBS=$NETLIBS
-         AC_SUBST(EGDLIBS)
          ;;
     rndw32)
          AC_DEFINE(USE_RNDW32,1,