Does bind read /etc/hosts?

[houguanghua]

Sorry for what I said isn't very clear. I did know when the /etc/hosts is accessed in the OS.
What I want to know is whether the named access the hosts file. The /etc/hosts file isn't in the client's system, but in the system of Local DNS server where the 'named' task runs. For example:
      In the /etc/hosts file of Local DNS server(LDNS), one line exists as follows:
          10.10.10.1     www.google.com   
     A client querys this LDNS to get the IP of 'www.google.com' (the client may use dig,nslookup command. No host line is configured in /etc/hosts of this client ), what IP will be returned to the client?  Can the LDNS  return 10.10.10.1 defined in the /etc/hosts to the client?  maybe some special configuration in named can support this feature.
 
Thanks,
Guanghua
 
> To: houguanghua at hotmail.com
> CC: bind-users at isc.org
> From: marka at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Does bind read /etc/hosts?
> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:38:12 +1000
> 
> 
> In message <BAY173-W11D824E324939A1BB89852BBF60 at phx.gbl>, houguanghua writes:
> > Dear sir/madam,
> >  
> > Before Bind consults authority NS, does it access /etc/hosts?  In my 
> > testing,  it does not even seem to access /etc/hosts. But someone tells 
> > me Bind can access /etc/hosts first. Can you pls tell me how to config 
> > Bind to access /etc/hosts fist?
> >  
> > Thanks,
> > Guanghua
> 
> No.
> 
> getaddrinfo, gethostbyname etc. however may access /etc/hosts, NIS,
> mDNS, DNS and other databases.  You need to read the documentation
> that comes with your system for how to control these.
> 
> Mark
> -- 
> Mark Andrews, ISC
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: marka at isc.org
 		 	   		  
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