On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 07:19:53PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > I assume its purpose is to allow different resolver settings to be used with > individual programs. For instance, perhaps one program should use DNS, while > another NIS, and still another only the local hosts file for name resolution. > For some programs, setting 'nospoof' will improve security; for others, it > will > just cause some lookups to fail needlessly.
How does resolv.conf let you specify that? According to resolv.conf(5), resolv.conf is used for DNS only (which is what I always thought). You could accomplish the above if you could override /etc/nsswitch.conf though. There's probably some nasties in this option somewhere. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>