Unwanted resolver usage of /etc/host.conf

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Mon Feb 25 08:22:52 UTC 2013


I don't believe it is correct to say "unused". Host.conf is still parsed and various directives obeyed. An absent / empty file may well be a sane default,  but glibc still reads the file - just "strace" any process doing a name lookup.

Fwiw fedora 18 has:

multi on

...in the file.


>
>the host.conf is not used since glibc2, which uses nsswitch.conf. I
>think you
>can safely remove and/or ignore that file.

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