On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 08:43:12PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > >Usually it's a problem in the inclusion of nameservers (do you include > >localhost?), and the "order" directive in /etc/host.conf: > > > > order hosts,bind > > Host.conf isn't used with libc6 anymore (i.e. for the last 2 years). > It's now /etc/nsswitch.conf
Looking at man nsswitch.conf and man host.conf, it appears this is partially true. As I understand, host.conf is used by the resolver. This should be what's at stake for DNS lookups. nsswitch.conf looks to be a super-configuration file pointing various C library functions to other configuration files. From the state of the man pages, it appears that there is some consolidation of functionality, but both files are still required. Anyone who knows what they're talking about got an authoritative reference on this? -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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