I don't believe it is correct to say "unused". Host.conf is still parsed and various directives obeyed. An absent / empty file may well be a sane default, but glibc still reads the file - just "strace" any process doing a name lookup.
Fwiw fedora 18 has: multi on ...in the file. > >the host.conf is not used since glibc2, which uses nsswitch.conf. I >think you >can safely remove and/or ignore that file. -- Sent from my mobile device, please excuse brevity and typos. _______________________________________________ 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
