[buug] DNS help: tricking my network

[Ian Zimmerman]

jan> nsswitch is a linux/solarisism.

Acutally linux has both nsswitch.conf and host.conf.  The first is
used by the wrapper routines in libc (gethostbyname etc.), the second
by the lower-level resolver library (res_*).  Apparently this means
that with the most common configuration /etc/hosts is searched twice,
once by each level.

Bizarre?  Yes.

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