On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 09:55:29PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 07:19:53PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > I assume its purpose is to allow different resolver settings to be used with > > individual programs. For instance, perhaps one program should use DNS, > > while > > another NIS, and still another only the local hosts file for name > > resolution. > > For some programs, setting 'nospoof' will improve security; for others, it > > will > > just cause some lookups to fail needlessly. > > How does resolv.conf let you specify that? According to resolv.conf(5), > resolv.conf is used for DNS only (which is what I always thought). > You could accomplish the above if you could override /etc/nsswitch.conf > though.
The environment variable in question lets you specify the location of host.conf, not resolv.conf. -- - mdz