Per Jessen wrote:
> Theo Van Dinter wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Per Jessen<
per@...> wrote:
>>> Back to the subject line - how do I make Net::DNS::Resolver
>>> take /etc/hosts into account?
>> b) my guess is that you can't, but it's a question for the Net::DNS
>> folks, not SA.
>
> Theo, I do appreciate that, but something SA or Net::DNS does changes
> the behaviour of subsequent calls to gethostbyname(), so the question
> is who is the culprit? Can you say for certain that SA isn't the
> guilty part? (just so I can start digging into Net::DNS instead).
On many operating systems (Solaris, Fedora 11, and Gentoo Linux are the
ones I have) the file /etc/nsswitch.conf controls exactly what you are
asking, the usual relevant line is:
hosts: files dns
Which means first look at /etc/hosts, then ask bind (named).
In Fedora 11 the same line is more complex, returning an error before
using named, but that is not your problem:
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
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René Berber
