Matt Thomas wrote:

> 
> On Jun 2, 2004, at 11:38 AM, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Jun 2, 2004, at 5:42 AM, Pelle Johansson wrote:
>>
>>> You'll notice there's a new entry for include/netdb.h adding an 
>>> additional AI_SRV flag, and an additional check in _dns_getaddrinfo 
>>> for this flag.
>>
>>
>> FWIW, I like this approach better than looking up SRV records by default.
> 
> 
> It seems to me that this should controlled by an entry in
> /etc/nsswitch.conf (srv?):
> 
> host:    files dns srv
> 
> 

This would create a compatibility problem. better not to touch 
nsswitch.conf. any other file (or a sysctl var) could do.