Re: use the /etc/hosts file

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 09:09:43AM +0200, Stokkenes Vidar wrote:

I don't know what changed from gDD to ipdevpoll regarding this, but in earlier versions, NAV would update the name of a switch if rDNS was broken the day you added the device in NAV - if you later fixed rDNS. And by adding the given host to /etc/hosts (give you have the right order in nsswitch.conf) shouldn't the same thing happen with ipdevpoll?

As I explained to the other Vidar, ipdevpoll doesn't use the socket library mechanisms for DNS lookups, since it needs to work asynchronously. /etc/nsswitch.conf is irrelevant in this case.