The following reply was made to PR mod_log-any/2366; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Glenn Fleishman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mod_log-any/2366: DNS lookup in logs reports host, first number in dotted quads Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 13:15:34 -0700 (PDT) On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Glenn Fleishman wrote: > On the bind subject: I didn't do it explicitly, but apache is performing > lookups in some cases, just not all. How do I link explicitly? In all the > software I've compiled over the last four years, this hasn't been a problem > with this OS (or I've been lucky). It depends on how you've got it installed. If you've got the "resolv+" package installed then you probably linked against it, since that modifies the shared libcs. But otherwise I think you need to add -lresolv or something like that, it's been a long time since I've had to deal with sunos4. > On the NIS/YP front: we use it, but barely. Just enough to avoid having to > replace it, but not for any real purpose. It's set up to use DNS primarily. Yeah that's enough to cause troubles. > /etc/hosts: not sure why this affects externally looked-up FQDNs - can you > explain? Does an FQDN in the /etc/hosts file force DNS involvement in > resolver lookups? That seems odd. It won't affect external stuff. It'll only affect stuff that has entries in /etc/hosts. Dean
