Re: getent(1) hosts - does DNS lookups

2016-06-08 Thread Marcus MERIGHI
Hello Raf, rczlo...@gmail.com (Raf Czlonka), 2016.06.08 (Wed) 12:15 (CEST): > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 10:59:00AM BST, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > > I would not expect getent(1) ("get entries from administrative > > database") to do network DNS lookups. > > Yes, it even says so in the man page > man

Re: getent(1) hosts - does DNS lookups

2016-06-08 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 10:59:00AM BST, Marcus MERIGHI wrote: > I would not expect getent(1) ("get entries from administrative > database") to do network DNS lookups. Yes, it even says so in the man page man 1 getent The order in which entries are looked up is defined by the spec

getent(1) hosts - does DNS lookups

2016-06-08 Thread Marcus MERIGHI
I would not expect getent(1) ("get entries from administrative database") to do network DNS lookups. Usual sendbug(1) machine info omitted because it applies to all machines I have access to - though these are all amd64. Reproduce: have a default hosts(5): 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1