Bug#314694: xauth needs an option to disable DNS lookups like 'route -n'
Package: xbase-clients
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13
Severity: minor
File: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
The 'xauth' command needs an option to disable DNS lookups as in
'route -n'. This is important because it's a very low-level utility -
things should be able to depend on 'xauth' without breaking whenever
DNS is misconfigured or the network goes down. For instance, I use
'xauth' on my system to allow a daemon running as root to access my
display - I still want these kinds of tools to work if there is a
network outage, but it looks like xauth has been just hanging when it
can't access DNS.
Frederik
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii cpp 4:3.3.5-3 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdps1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 Display PostScript (DPS) client li
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.6-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxaw7 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 X Athena widget set library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxmu6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxmuu1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 lightweight X Window System miscel
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 X pixmap library
ii libxrandr2 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 X Window System Resize, Rotate and
ii libxrender1 1:0.8.3-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii libxtrap6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 X Window System protocol-trapping
ii libxtst6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 X Window System event recording an
ii libxv1 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 X Window System video extension li
ii xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr
ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii xlibmesa-glu [libglu1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-13 X Window System client data
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
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