nslookup issues on hp-ux

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> Hi all,
>   I just upgraded to 8.2.3 and distributed the new nslookup. The previous
> nslookup was the one that came with HP-UX and looks at the nsswitch.conf
> file to decide where to lookup from. The new binary doesn't go there, it
> goes straight to DNS. I ran tusc to trace the old and new nslookup
> binaries and sure enough, the old one does an open() call to
> /etc/nsswitch.conf but the new one doesn't even look. This is a problem in
> our environment because we will always have certain entries only in
> /etc/hosts rather than in DNS. Am I going insane, or did I miss a
> configuration switch when I compiled? Has anyone else run into this? I
> would appreciate any help. I have been digging through the code for days
> trying to figure out what I did wrong.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris Medaglia
> Unix Dog
> InteQ Corporation
> 
> 
	nslookup is a DNS disgnotic tool.  It's no supposed to look at
	/etc/nsswitch.conf.  HP hacked it to do this.

	Mark
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