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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