On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 09:10:54AM +0200, Per Jessen wrote: > René Berber wrote: > > > On many operating systems (Solaris, Fedora 11, and Gentoo Linux are > > the ones I have) the file /etc/nsswitch.conf controls exactly what you > > are asking, the usual relevant line is: > > > > hosts: files dns > > > > Which means first look at /etc/hosts, then ask bind (named). > > > > In Fedora 11 the same line is more complex, returning an error before > > using named, but that is not your problem: > > > > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns > > Rene, that's not the issue here at all. > > Here it is in a nutshell: > > 1) a tiny perl test-script using gethostbyname() will look at /etc/hosts > and try to resolve the name from there. Works fine and just as > expected. > > 2) a call to gethostbyname() from within an SA plugin does NOT look > at /etc/hosts.
Please share your code so we can verify and test it. There is nothing in SA code that would redefine gethostbyname.
