Per-process hosts file

[Kenneth Porter]

Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in
news:djrab4$12ks$1 at sf1.isc.org: 

> A couple of answers off the top of my head though: chroot, virtual
> machine. 

True, chroot might be a good solution.

> /etc/hosts really doesn't have anything to do with BIND or DNS.

I'd gotten the impression that BIND now supplied a client resolver, and 
didn't know if it also checked hosts or if that was done elsewhere in the 
library system. I'm not familiar with the plumbing between the actual DNS 
resolver, glibc, and nsswitch.