On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 04:40:43PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The issue is that the default config for the ‘hosts’ database when > resolv.conf is missing is (see nss/hosts-lookup.c): > dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files > When doing a host name lookup, ‘dns’ is unavailable, so we go on with > ‘files’ and /etc/hosts is honored as expected. > However, when doing a reverse lookup, the DNS resolver > (__libc_res_nquery) returns ‘notfound’, and so ‘gethostbyaddr’ returns > immediately. > Changing the ‘hosts’ config to “dns files” solves this particular. > I’ll ask for advice on libc-help.
Did anything come out of this? How should I proceed for the neon package? Andreas
