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Re: [bug] nss resolver code doesn't stop at files lookup


On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 07:24:11AM +0100, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Nov 10, Ben Collins wrote:
> 
> > This is pretty easy to reproduce. Basically what happens (and can be seen
> > from an strace) is that that with getaddrinfo(), a success on a /etc/hosts
> > lookup does not stop the NSS lookup process, and it continues to try and
> > find it via DNS.
> 
> You forget to say one important thing: glibc tries to get the IPv6 address
> over DNS.

Uggh. Anyway to prevent this, or is it merely an extension/feature of
getaddrinfo?

> > hosts:
> > 	127.0.0.1	localhost
> 
> Add the following:
> # special IPv6 addresses
> ::1             localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback

That worked.

> > Now, if you do a name lookup for `localhost' under these conditions, I
> > would expect that it would not attempt a DNS lookup. This is not the case
> > with getaddrinfo(), but it is the case with gethostbyname().
> 
> I would expect a DNS lookup, since you have not specified the IPv6 address
> in /etc/hosts.
> SuSE solves this problem for a long time with a second libnss_dns Module.
> Our standard libnss_dns Module does not make lookups for IPv6 addresses.
> 
> 
> > getaddrinfo() continues to do a DNS lookup, even after it has read and
> > parsed /etc/hosts. Now this would not be a major problem, if it did not
> > cause the call to getaddrinfo to fail and return non-zero. IOW, any DNS
> > failure (other than notfound) for a host in /etc/hosts, will cause a
> > failure for the getaddrinfo call completely.
> 
> Strange, I never saw this. This sounds like a real bug.

Yeah, this is the biggest problem. The others wouln't matter so much if
things didn't fail like they are.

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