Hi,

We use Curl 7.10.8 (pre1) on HP-Compaq-Alpha and Sun-Solaris with Ares async
DNS lookup and discovered that the Ares library seems not to read the
/etc/nsswitch.conf file. We use that file to control the sequence of the
host lookups (DNS or the /etc/hosts file).

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

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

Thanks in advance for your comments,
Frank

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Received on 2003-11-04