Re: [PATCH] hostname.7: HOSTALIASES/search path processing is DNS-specific

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Hello Florian,

On 4/23/19 4:11 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
Other NSS modules do not necessarily honor these settings.

Thanks. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

---
  man7/hostname.7 | 13 +++++++++++--
  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man7/hostname.7 b/man7/hostname.7
index 4c07485c7..f8a337c39 100644
--- a/man7/hostname.7
+++ b/man7/hostname.7
@@ -65,8 +65,16 @@ which must generally translate the name to an address for use.
  .BR getaddrinfo (3)
  or the obsolete
  .BR gethostbyname (3).)
-Hostnames are resolved by the Internet name resolver in the following
-fashion.
+.PP
+Hostnames are resolved by the NSS framework in glibc according
+to the
+.B hosts
+configuration in
+.BR nsswitch.conf .
+The DNS-based name resolver
+(in the
+.B dns
+NSS service module) resolves them in the following fashion.
  .PP
  If the name consists of a single component, that is, contains no dot,
  and if the environment variable
@@ -100,6 +108,7 @@ by a system-wide configuration file (see
  .SH SEE ALSO
  .BR getaddrinfo (3),
  .BR gethostbyname (3),
+.BR nsswitch.conf (5),
  .BR resolver (5),
  .BR mailaddr (7),
  .BR named (8)




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