On 2009-10-26 Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> wrote: > Andreas Metzler a écrit : > > Package: libc6 > > Version: 2.10.1-2 > > Severity: normal [...] > > previous versions of the resolver queried the local nameserver if > > /etc/resolv.conf was not present or did not contain a nameserver setting: [...]
> Looking at the code, this was never supported, and only worked by > accident in previous versions. A comment in resolv/res_init.c says: * Set up default settings. If the configuration file exist, the values * there will have precedence. Otherwise, the server address is set to * INADDR_ANY and the default domain name comes from the gethostname(). For completeness sake the same comment later says * The configuration file should always be used, since it is the only way * to specify a default domain. If you are running a server on your local * machine, you should say "nameserver 0.0.0.0" or "nameserver 127.0.0.1" * in the configuration file. Not the "should" not "must". On top of that I perfectly happy with not setting domain. This is ancient functionality, the Linux Network Administrators Guide documents it: 6.1.3. Configuring Name Server Lookups Using resolv.conf | When configuring the resolver library to use the BIND name service for | host lookups, you also have to tell it which name servers to use. | There is a separate file for this called resolv.conf. If this file | does not exist or is empty, the resolver assumes the name server is on | your local host. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
