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-rw-r--r--ares/CHANGES13
-rw-r--r--ares/ares_init.c18
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/ares/CHANGES b/ares/CHANGES
index f331b7094..0548935cc 100644
--- a/ares/CHANGES
+++ b/ares/CHANGES
@@ -1,11 +1,20 @@
Changelog for the c-ares project
+* September 29
+
+- Henrik Stoerner fix: got a report that Tru64 Unix (the unix from Digital
+ when they made Alpha's) uses /etc/svc.conf for the purpose fixed below for
+ other OSes. He made c-ares check for and understand it if present.
+
+- Now c-ares will use local host name lookup _before_ DNS resolving by default
+ if nothing else is told.
+
* September 26
-- Henrik Stoerner: found out that C-ARES does not look at the /etc/host.conf
+- Henrik Stoerner: found out that c-ares does not look at the /etc/host.conf
file to determine the sequence in which to search /etc/hosts and DNS. So on
systems where this order is defined by /etc/host.conf instead of a "lookup"
- entry in /etc/resolv.conf, C-ARES will always default to looking in DNS
+ entry in /etc/resolv.conf, c-ares will always default to looking in DNS
first, and /etc/hosts second.
c-ares now looks at
diff --git a/ares/ares_init.c b/ares/ares_init.c
index 78d865cb0..227067ea2 100644
--- a/ares/ares_init.c
+++ b/ares/ares_init.c
@@ -567,6 +567,7 @@ DhcpNameServer
fclose(fp);
if (!channel->lookups) {
+ /* Many systems (Solaris, Linux, BSD's) use nsswitch.conf */
fp = fopen("/etc/nsswitch.conf", "r");
if (fp) {
while ((status = ares__read_line(fp, &line, &linesize)) == ARES_SUCCESS)
@@ -577,7 +578,9 @@ DhcpNameServer
fclose(fp);
}
}
+
if (!channel->lookups) {
+ /* Linux / GNU libc 2.x and possibly others have host.conf */
fp = fopen("/etc/host.conf", "r");
if (fp) {
while ((status = ares__read_line(fp, &line, &linesize)) == ARES_SUCCESS)
@@ -589,6 +592,19 @@ DhcpNameServer
}
}
+ if (!channel->lookups) {
+ /* Tru64 uses /etc/svc.conf */
+ fp = fopen("/etc/svc.conf", "r");
+ if (fp) {
+ while ((status = ares__read_line(fp, &line, &linesize)) == ARES_SUCCESS)
+ {
+ if ((p = try_config(line, "hosts=")) && !channel->lookups)
+ status = config_lookup(channel, p, "bind", "local");
+ }
+ fclose(fp);
+ }
+ }
+
if(line)
free(line);
}
@@ -684,7 +700,7 @@ static int init_by_defaults(ares_channel channel)
if (!channel->lookups)
{
- channel->lookups = strdup("bf");
+ channel->lookups = strdup("fb");
if (!channel->lookups)
return ARES_ENOMEM;
}