On May 15, 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:26:26PM -0600, Gordon Haverland wrote: > > I wrote a note to my LUG about the use of /etc/hosts to > > lessen the chance of visiting some types of web sites, and > > got a reply saying that /etc/host.conf was deprecated. And > > a long time ago. > > > > I'm running unstable, surely if /etc/host.conf was deprecated > > I would have seen a note about it in the past? And yet, it > > is still on my computer, and still part of base-files. > > It has not been deprecated. It's rare that a user should need > to make changes to this file, but it remains a current > interface for globally configuring the behavior of the libc > resolver.
Supposedly you've been reading source more than me lately, but almost all the non-source documentation says that the resolver in modern libc (and this goes back 5 or more years) does not use /etc/host.conf. I can see a need for a small libc as being more pressing in a router, and maybe libc in OpenWRT is more ancient than what Debian provides. But, I can go dig through the code manually to see if libc in OpenWRT (a year ago) actually uses /etc/host.conf. I have better things to do, but if this needs to get cleared up, I am willing to go reading source code. But, if my entire ImageBuilder archive (of 1 year ago) has no need of /etc/host.conf, I think maintainers in Linux should consider removing it. Because nsswitch.conf is supposed to be providing all that information. Gord -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201305152010.13017.ghave...@materialisations.com
