Per-process hosts file
Kenneth Porter
shiva.blacklist at sewingwitch.com
Fri Oct 28 10:58:42 UTC 2005
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.
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