Subject: Re: HEADS UP: nsswitch about to go `live' in NetBSD-current
To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 01/20/1999 09:06:23
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 03:16:27 -0800
Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> wrote:
> What status is returned if DNS is unavailable and the host isn't in
> /etc/hosts? Does this look like a temporary failure or does it look
> like we have been told there is no such host?
No such host, I guess... same as would happen with the old code (after
the DNS timeout :-)
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>