John Summerfield wrote: > I'll go further too and propose that sudo's hehaviour is broken. It > should not be trying to resolve $HOSTNAME if there's no external > network: note that if there's no external network that implies the > user has local access. Test rules for 127.0.0.1 by all means. > The brokenness of sudo is no reason to break even more software.
Bdale Garbee has already addressed this accusation in his comment to bug report #266209: > One of the features of sudo is the ability to express permissions across > hosts, which results in sudo wanting to be able to do DNS lookups on the > current host. > > If you want this to work with less delay when the network isn't accessible, > you should investigate the options provided by the nsswitch.conf file to have > a working gethostbyname() capability even when DNS servers aren't reachable. John Summerfield continued: > If there is no external network, then the behaviour of programs such as > ping, telnet, ssh are irrelevant. All are of limited use without a > functioning network. That isn't entirely true. Some programs use the loopback interface to provide/use services locally. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
