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| author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2021-12-17 12:01:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2021-12-17 12:17:18 +0100 |
| commit | dc9b69d5331dcdca4547c0490cb9fefbd89e40f6 (patch) | |
| tree | a1f506d552e15ef8cbf3b2185228feaaa2e29397 /manual | |
| parent | 93aabf891e96e93f100081ee07989c23d7107d17 (diff) | |
| download | glibc-dc9b69d5331dcdca4547c0490cb9fefbd89e40f6.tar.gz | |
nss: Use "files dns" as the default for the hosts database (bug 28700)
This matches what is currently in nss/nsswitch.conf. The new ordering
matches what most distributions use in their installed configuration
files.
It is common to add localhost to /etc/hosts because the name does not
exist in the DNS, but is commonly used as a host name.
With the built-in "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default, dns is
searched first and provides an answer for "localhost" (NXDOMAIN).
We never look at the files database as a result, so the contents of
/etc/hosts is ignored. This means that "getent hosts localhost"
fail without a /etc/nsswitch.conf file, even though the host name
is listed in /etc/hosts.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit b99b0f93ee8762fe53ff65802deb6f00700b9924)
Diffstat (limited to 'manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/nss.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/manual/nss.texi b/manual/nss.texi index 3aaa7786f8..524d22ad1e 100644 --- a/manual/nss.texi +++ b/manual/nss.texi @@ -324,9 +324,8 @@ missing. @cindex default value, and NSS For the @code{hosts} and @code{networks} databases the default value is -@code{dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files}. I.e., the system is prepared for -the DNS service not to be available but if it is available the answer it -returns is definitive. +@code{files dns}. I.e., local configuration will override the contents +of the domain name system (DNS). The @code{passwd}, @code{group}, and @code{shadow} databases was traditionally handled in a special way. The appropriate files in the |