All, for whatever reason, Net::DNS::Resolver (as used in SA) doesn't appear to look at /etc/hosts. I thought it was a Net::DNS::Resolver peculiarity, maybe something to do with cross-platform support, so in a plugin module I've been writing, I tried to gethostbyname() instead. I verified it outside of SA, and gethostbyname() does, as expected, also consult /etc/hosts (provided /etc/nsswitch is correct configured). However, when I use gethostbyname() from within SA, it does not consult /etc/hosts ... which led me to conclude that Net::DNS::Resolver does something to the resolver setup (at init-time) which makes it ignore /etc/hosts.
Back to the subject line - how do I make Net::DNS::Resolver take /etc/hosts into account? /Per Jessen, Zürich
