Re: WARNING : libc6 Version: 2.0.7t-1 breaks resolv routines

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

Quoting Robert J. Alexander (rja@raleigh.ibm.com):
> If you do a "strace 127.0.0.1" you will see that the host command
> command used in this way WILL take a look to your /etc/nsswitch.conf
> file and if the latter has a hosts: files,dns line in it, will open
> your /etc/hosts file, read from it and retrieve the corresponding name
> WITHOUT EVER going to a DNS (can check also with IPTRAF or TCPDUMP if
> you are an overly suspicious character 8->).
> 
> Conversely if you do a "strace localhost" with the same situation host
> will totally ignore /etc/nsswitch and as you and the man page state,
> attempt a DNS query.
> 
> This mixed behavior of the host command I discovered makes it an
> unreliable debugging to tool.

Hmm. Did you file a bug report? This does seem to be non-specified
behavior.

Mike Stone