I would not expect getent(1) ("get entries from administrative
database") to do network DNS lookups.Usual sendbug(1) machine info omitted because it applies to all machines I have access to - though these are all amd64. Reproduce: have a default hosts(5): 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost have a working nameserver in resolv.conf(5). then run the following commands: $ getent hosts 8.8.8.7 8.8.8.7 8.8.8.7 $ getent hosts 8.8.8.8 8.8.8.8 google-public-dns-a.google.com $ getent hosts www.openbsd.org 129.128.5.194 www.openbsd.org To me this looks like getent(1) does network dns resolution instead of returning "no result" if there is no matching entry in hosts(5). I can see the lookups in unbound(8)s logs in case of local resolving via resolv.conf(5). Bye, Marcus
