On 16 May 2013 12:10, Gordon Haverland <ghave...@materialisations.com>wrote:
> 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.
>
On Debian wheezy:
strace -eopen ping www.google.com
[...]
open("/etc/host.conf", O_RDONLY) = 3
[...]
Looks like it is still being used to me.
Perhaps the documentation means that the file is not required, as opposed
to not used?
--
Brian May <br...@microcomaustralia.com.au>
