From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Cc: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nss: Use "files dns" as the default for the hosts database (bug 28700)
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 12:41:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r2bo3ug.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xntuf98rfo.fsf@greed.delorie.com> (DJ Delorie's message of "Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:54:35 -0500")
* DJ Delorie:
> I wonder if it would make sense to have a built-in "localhost" module
> for nss, so we could use "localhost dns [[!UNAVAIL=return] files" as the
> internal default *just* to solve the localhost problem? Or call it
> "internaldb" so its purpose is obvious?
>
> That would guarantee that if we have to resort to defaults, we resort to
> defaults that work.
>
> Anything that manages nsswitch would provide something to resolve
> localhost externally too, as usual.
The tricky aspect here is the exact meaning of localhost on dual-host
systems. I'm not sure how much variance there is in practice, though.
Thanks,
Florian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-17 11:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-15 18:33 Florian Weimer
2021-12-15 21:45 ` Carlos O'Donell
2021-12-15 21:54 ` DJ Delorie
2021-12-17 11:41 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
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