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From: Peter Polgar <ppeter.bme@gmail.com>
To: libc-help@sourceware.org
Subject: nsswitch.conf - db service for hosts
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 00:18:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF2BDb_GN9ikrS7uhHk03nh_42p8RZyO3TaEkRdwohhVoS8B1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I am trying to use the db service in nsswitch.conf. I couldn't make it work
so I decided to get some hints from the source code.
A comment in test-netdb.c:310 says that "db is not implemented for hosts".
Also seen in the nss/Makefile:128 that "hosts" is filtered out from the
list of dbs.
Do these mean that db service is not implemented for hosts?
If it is implemented how can I find the path where nsswitch is looking for
the db?

I am on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with GLIBC 2.31-0ubuntu9.9, libnss-db/focal,now
2.2.3pre1-6build6

Thanks!
Peter

             reply	other threads:[~2022-07-23 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-23 22:18 Peter Polgar [this message]
2022-07-24 14:07 ` Carlos O'Donell
2022-07-24 16:56   ` Peter Polgar
2022-07-29 16:23     ` Carlos O'Donell

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