> > but will this actually give the current/desired behavior?  ie, if you
> > nslookup 10.0.0.1 (borrowed a little from your example), if the dns is
> > available, you *will* get an authoritative nxdomain answer.
>
>nslookup _always_ uses dns.  It doesn't use files or anything else.  Only
>the libc resolver is affected.
>
>        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>

er...well, yes.  you are correct.  but my fingers misspoke.  and i
said "nslookup", i actually meant "gethostbyname".  which, for me, is
a little c program that just calls gethostbyname on argv[1] so that i
can see exactly what the libc routines return.

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