resolver environment variables

David Carmean dlc at halibut.com
Thu Mar 16 00:32:00 UTC 2006


On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:49:22PM -0500, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 01:52:54PM -0800, David Carmean wrote:
> > Do the environment variables LOCALDOMAIN, RES_OPTIONS, and friends 
> > actually work on any common/modern OS package?  I have so far been 
> > unsuccessful in using RES_OPTIONS or LOCALDOMAIN in FreeBSD (4.x and 5.4), 
> > Solaris (2.8, 2.9), and Linux (RedHat 8).
> > 
> > Thanks.
> 
> 
> I double-checked the code and our local libc.* files, and I was wrong
> yesterday.  They do appear to be compiled into the running versions of
> the resolver library, on Red Hat Linux, at least..
> 
> How had you been trying to make them work?

By setting, for example, $LOCALDOMAIN to a subdomain not in the client's 
search order and using ping to test the client's resolver.  

However, on Solaris and (RedHat) Linux it's starting to look like an nscd 
issue.  



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