Daniel Burrows wrote: > I think the point Martin is making (hopefully not putting words in > his mouth)
I think I understood the point, but... > is that he doesn't know of anywhere that he configured > localhost as a DNS resolver. resolv.conf(5): If this file [/etc/resolv.conf] doesn’t exist the only name server to be queried will be on the local machine. > You would expect (or at least I would) > that without any configured DNS server, DNS queries would just fail, > not try to contact random servers in case something answered. > It's not random, nor servers. It's one host, the localhost, even if there is a network interface no traffic goes through it, only through the lo interface. Now, I don't know why this is like this nor if this behavior is good (or even useful), but that's how things work. -- What this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI [email protected] http://move.to/hpkb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
