Re: 'export RESOLV_HOST_CONF= any file you want' local vulnerability
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:55:29PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 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.
The environment variable in question lets you specify the location of
host.conf, not resolv.conf.
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- mdz
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