On 9/10/21 10:53 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 9/8/21 6:01 PM, Josh Triplett wrote: >>> Now, that said, if the build process actually wants a DNS server to >>> run tests against, it should provide or depend on such a DNS server, >>> and configure it for such tests. >> >> Just to be 100% sure we're on the same page: that's *not* what dnspython >> is doing. It's a client library that's testing parsing of the >> /etc/resolv.conf format, and it just expects it to be there for parsing. > > I understood that; I'd just wanted to make it clear that while programs > parsing /etc/resolv.conf should assume a nameserver on localhost if > /etc/resolv.conf doesn't exist
I don't understand why that should be the case. If there's a local nameserver, then it should be configured in resolv.conf as "nameserver 127.0.0.1" no? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
