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Re: Paquage: base-files / Pre-standardisation program /etc/hosts file format - Cloud and AI new issues - Bug - DEBIAN OS Distrib



Hello t alias Tomas


Than you so much for your contribution on this query

Do you think it can be possible to address the same reply to this link : 

https://github.com/ietf-tools/datatracker/issues/10088

And do you know who at Debian can follow it at IETF ?

I'm trying to contact all OS to have begining of alert on this at least because people seems not aware and Climate ... Electronic Ships Crisis... AI Ressource Exponential  etc

 

Loic Coupel



From: tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Sent: 12 December 2025 12:54
To: Loic Coupel
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Paquage: base-files / Pre-standardisation program /etc/hosts file format - Cloud and AI new issues - Bug - DEBIAN OS Distrib
 
On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 12:17:30PM +0000, Loic Coupel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Dear Debian User List

[...]

> This can cause applications to fail, spike CPU and memory usage, and produce unpredictable network behaviour. Please note that /etc/hosts is always read before DNS, so errors in the file can block communication without clear error messages.

On Linux with libc (regardless of which distro!) this "always" is
simply not true: the order can be changed in /etc/nsswitch.conf

Besides, I don't believe you that the format of /etc/hosts changes
across GNU/Linux distros (no idea 'bout Android, and about Windows,
I couldn't care less, sorry).

Cheers
--
t

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