HOSTALIASES variable not being checked

2004-12-30 Thread Matt Perry
From reading the man page for gethostbyname(3) I see that I can set
the environment variable HOSTALIASES to point to a file with local
aliases.  When I do that, it doesn't seem to be working.

$ cat hostalias
deb ftp.debian.org

$ export HOSTALIASES=$HOME/hostalias

$ ftp deb
ftp: deb: Name or service not known

Has anyone gotten HOSTALIASES to work properly?  I'm running sarge.

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Re: HOSTALIASES variable not being checked

2004-12-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Matt Perry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041230 01:30]:
 From reading the man page for gethostbyname(3) I see that I can set
 the environment variable HOSTALIASES to point to a file with local
 aliases.  When I do that, it doesn't seem to be working.
 
 $ cat hostalias
 deb ftp.debian.org
 
 $ export HOSTALIASES=$HOME/hostalias
 
 $ ftp deb
 ftp: deb: Name or service not known
 
 Has anyone gotten HOSTALIASES to work properly?  I'm running sarge.

Works for me here:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo foo google.com  hostalias 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export HOSTALIASES=$HOME/hostalias
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo GET / HTTP/1.0
^M  
^M | nc foo 80 | head
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html
Set-Cookie: 
PREF=ID=03c0d2281eda6f75:TM=1104402356:LM=1104402356:S=jkhUw7L5KYF4vGXQ; 
expires=Sun, 17-Jan-2038 19:14:07 GMT; path=/; domain=.google.com
Server: GWS/2.1
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:25:56 GMT
Connection: Close

htmlheadmeta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1titleGoogle/titlestyle!--
body,td,a,p,.h{font-family:arial,sans-serif;}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 

try strace to see what ftp is doing wrong.  My ftp does the right thing,
too.

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