Re: gethostby* different in libc6

1997-06-02 Thread Christian Hudon
On Jun 1, Carey Evans wrote > > I would prefer not to be told that www.debian.org, for example, is > authoritatively known not to exist, especially if there was just a > temporary problem with the name servers. Should I report this as a > bug against libc6? Looks like a bug to me. Better to repo

gethostby* different in libc6

1997-06-01 Thread Carey Evans
I've discovered that gethostbyname and gethostbyaddr behave differently under libc5 and libc6. I'm wondering if either has a bug, and why there is a difference anyway. Here's what happens: Given the following lines respectively in host.conf and nsswitch.conf: order hosts,bind hosts: files dns