Re: gethostbyname(3) doesn't appear to work under NetBSD-5.2 and NetBSD-6.1.x when hostnames appear only in /etc/hosts

[eric%cirr.com@localhost (Eric Schnoebelen)]

Brian Buhrow writes:
-       hello.  It appears that gethostbyname(3) in NetBSD-5.2 and 6.1.x is
- broken if the name you're trying to fetch is listed in /etc/hosts and 
- nowhere else.  The problem appears to be with this change:

I'm unable to reproduce on "6.1_STABLE amd64".

One thing you've not provided is your nsswitch.conf file, it
controls how getent(1) behaves.

From my test session:

        egsner-> grep sillyhost.cirr.com /etc/hosts
        192.168.10.1    sillyhost.cirr.com sillyhost
        egsner-> host sillyhost.cirr.com
        Host sillyhost.cirr.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
        egsner-> getent hosts sillyhost.cirr.com
        192.168.10.1      sillyhost.cirr.com  sillyhost
        egsner-> grep host /etc/nsswitch.con
        hosts:          files dns
        # hosts:                dns, files, nis, mdnsd, multicast_dns


If your nsswitch has "dns files", you may want a "[notfound=continue]"
clause between "dns" and "files" (although that is supposed to
be the default.)

I might postulate your configuration has an nsswitch.conf file
with only "dns" in it?

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