On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 10:51:58AM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2025, 7:58 AM <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > .... > > [0] This is part of the libc and (roughly) translates host names to > > IP addresses for the programs running in your box. Eventually, > > it goes out to ask some DNS servers. > > > > Along the way it's (probably) consulting /etc/resolv.conf which is where > the "resolver" gets most of its own config information. Such as how to > "assume" the network name given only a hostname, and the order in which DNS > servers should be queried and their names or network addresses. > > Then there's /etc/nsswitch.conf as already described below, that stands for > "name-service switch". Originally a sort-of meta-config for name > resolution, later other random configuration gunk got included there :-)
Thanks for making the circle more round :-) Cheers -- t
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