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On Jan 6, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> I guess gethostby* has to call the res_* functions if 
> /etc/nsswitch.conf
> tells it to (or maybe it's lower in the nsswitch functions, I don't 
> know).
> My intend it to add this at the same place the resolver routines are
> called.
> But I didn't look at the code yet.

gethostby*() calls a dispatch routine to "backend" functions that 
implement the various methods.

The questions are:

	* How does gethostby*()'s DNS back-end know to re-read resolv.conf?
	  I.e. how does it get the timestamp information about the resolv.conf
	  file for comparisons?

	* Does the user have to do something silly like touch a file
	  unrelated to resolv.conf to trigger the reread?

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>


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