On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Frank Ticheler wrote:

> It seems that the Ares library by default prefers the DNS lookup above the
> /etc/hosts file lookup. This behaviour can be changed by adding a lookup tag
> to the /etc/resolv.conf file: lookup files bind. This way, the hosts file is
> checked first.
>
> As far as I know, this lookup tag in resolv.conf is no standard behaviour

Standard or not, it seems to be commonly used all over, judging from a little
googling on the subject.

> and I would expect the Ares library to read the nsswitch.conf file instead.

I would expect it to support both!

> I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this also.

Reading the source code clearly shows that there is no attempt at all to read
the nsswitch.conf file at all. This would indeed be a good thing to fix.

Would you be able to provide a patch to introduce this?

-- 
 Daniel - been obfuscating curl source code since 1998.
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