Re: DNS

[Pavel Epifanov <pavel_e@yahoo.com>]

--- Dmitry Astapov <adept@umc.com.ua> wrote:
>  PE> Are you serious about hosts. I have everything build using it.  Which
>  PE> version of libc is "ÄÏÓÔÁÔÏÞÎÏ ÎÏ×ÙÊ" for you?
> Dead serious. Take a look at:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc-0003/msg00097.html
> and there was thread about this recently on debian-devel, though I dont
> recall the subject.
> 
> At least in glibc v2.2.3 this is really so. 

It is really pity. 
It was not my intention to install any DNS except of /etc/hosts.

As from your reference:

>Subject: Bug#60743: libc6: getaddrinfo tries to resolve in an order
>disobeying /etc/host.conf 
>From: Philip Blundell <pb@labs.futuretv.com> 
>Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 10:24:21 +0000 
>
>>I found this a big problem basically because my machine is within a local
>>network masquaraded by only a server with a dialup link.  DNS queries is
>>very slow (it takes 1 minute to dialup my provider and have everything
>>settled before a DNS request can be served).  If my /etc/hosts file already
>>contains the name/address pair of a host (basically meaning that it is a
>>host in the local network), I really don't want a query to the remote DNS
>>server.
>
>You should probably set up a local DNS server for this situation.

My points:
a) local/VPN hosts not necessary could be resolved by any external DNS
b) It will slow down everything and will be more complex (less secure).

Probably we should wait with migration to Wooody as developers need time to
find out that this is a dead end of the road.




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Yours,
Pavel V. Epifanov.

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