[Gllug] Resolving question

[Jan Minar]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 03:58:10PM +0000, Jack Bertram wrote:
> * Jan Minar <jjminar at FastMail.FM> [041130 15:50]:
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 03:15:22PM +0000, Jack Bertram wrote:
> > > Do _all_ (normal) programs use the resolving order defined in
> > > resolv.conf?  I anticipate some DNS difficulties over the next few days
> > > and want to know whether I can add /etc/hosts entries to overcome these
> > > for one particular server.
> > 
> > Shor answer: yes.
> > 
> > It's host.conf, not resolv.conf
> 
> Oh yes.  What's the relationship between nsswitch.conf and host.conf?

Hmm, I thought they went in sequence, but it apparently isn't the case.

In "Pine.LNX.4.44.0204100953400.3084-100000 at localhost.localdomain",
Werner Puschitz writes:

> GNU C Library 2.x uses /etc/nsswitch.conf and older versions use
> /etc/hosts.conf.
> I don't know if any software included in RH uses the older version at 
> all. 

So I was probably wrong, and /etc/hosts.conf is not used at all, on
modern systems?  (Anybody stating manpages are the definitive source of
documentation should be shot on the spot.)

BTW:

nsswitch.conf(5):

| Within each process that uses nsswitch.conf, the entire file is read
| only once; if the file is later changed, the process will continue using
| the old configura­ tion.


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