In article <mailman.665.1325598835.68562.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk> wrote:
> >> On Jan 2, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Barry Margolin wrote: > >> > If the system resolver is good enough for every other application > >> > running on the system, it should be good enough for BIND. > >> > > >> > Why not at least allow this as an option? > > >In article <mailman.656.1325532888.68562.bind-us...@lists.isc.org>, > > Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote: > >> The system resolver will happily provide answers based upon data from > >> /etc/hosts, YP/NIS, and LDAP which have no relationship to what is in the > >> DNS. > > On 02.01.12 17:03, Barry Margolin wrote: > >In that case, you probably shouldn't enable the option. I'm not even > >suggesting that the option be on by default. > > > >Actually, does libresolv really use those other facilities? > > highly depends on configuration of host.conf or nsswitch.conf, but > afaik hosts are preferred by default on most of systems. > > >gethostbyname() does, but BIND probably shouldn't use that, because it > >loses data like TTLs. > > and that is one of reasons why BIND does not (and apparently even > should not) use system libresolv and gethost* functions. Are we talking about the same libresolv? I'm talking about functions like res_query(), which are very DNS-specific. They return the raw DNS reply data, including details like TTL. gethostbyname() is the function that uses nsswitch.conf. -- Barry Margolin Arlington, MA _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
