Jessie goals, and /etc/host.conf

2013-05-15 Thread Gordon Haverland
I wrote a note to my LUG about the use of /etc/hosts to lessen the chance of visiting some types of web sites, and got a reply saying that /etc/host.conf was deprecated. And a long time ago. I'm running unstable, surely if /etc/host.conf was deprecated I would have seen a note about it in the

Re: Jessie goals, and /etc/host.conf

2013-05-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:26:26PM -0600, Gordon Haverland wrote: I wrote a note to my LUG about the use of /etc/hosts to lessen the chance of visiting some types of web sites, and got a reply saying that /etc/host.conf was deprecated. And a long time ago. I'm running unstable, surely if

Re: Jessie goals, and /etc/host.conf

2013-05-15 Thread Gordon Haverland
On May 15, 2013, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:26:26PM -0600, Gordon Haverland wrote: I wrote a note to my LUG about the use of /etc/hosts to lessen the chance of visiting some types of web sites, and got a reply saying that /etc/host.conf was deprecated. And a long

Re: Jessie goals, and /etc/host.conf

2013-05-15 Thread Brian May
On 16 May 2013 12:10, Gordon Haverland ghave...@materialisations.comwrote: Supposedly you've been reading source more than me lately, but almost all the non-source documentation says that the resolver in modern libc (and this goes back 5 or more years) does not use /etc/host.conf. On Debian