From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Neon and reverse address lookup
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 18:30:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140205173029.GB15773@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iotgkmis.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 04:40:43PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> The issue is that the default config for the ‘hosts’ database when
> resolv.conf is missing is (see nss/hosts-lookup.c):
> dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files
> When doing a host name lookup, ‘dns’ is unavailable, so we go on with
> ‘files’ and /etc/hosts is honored as expected.
> However, when doing a reverse lookup, the DNS resolver
> (__libc_res_nquery) returns ‘notfound’, and so ‘gethostbyaddr’ returns
> immediately.
> Changing the ‘hosts’ config to “dns files” solves this particular.
> I’ll ask for advice on libc-help.
Did anything come out of this? How should I proceed for the neon package?
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-05 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-18 12:48 Neon and reverse address lookup Andreas Enge
2014-01-18 14:17 ` John Darrington
2014-01-18 14:43 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-18 14:41 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-18 16:45 ` Andreas Enge
2014-01-18 16:48 ` John Darrington
2014-01-18 20:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-18 20:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-18 21:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-01-18 21:49 ` John Darrington
2014-01-18 21:55 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-01-19 15:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-02-05 17:30 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2014-02-05 20:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
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