Bug 1114785
| Summary: | host.conf: "multi on" appears to be default | ||||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Anand Vaddarapu <avaddara> | ||||||||
| Component: | man-pages-overrides | Assignee: | Jan Chaloupka <jchaloup> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Iveta Wiedermann <isenfeld> | ||||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||||
| Version: | 6.5 | CC: | ashankar, isenfeld, ovasik, pfrankli, sauchter, spoyarek | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ManPageChange, Patch | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | man-pages-overrides-6.6.2-1.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||||||
| Doc Text: |
Cause: man page described incorrect default value of multi in host.conf
Consequence: incorrect documentation
Fix: default value of multi now describes "on"
Result: updated documentation
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Story Points: | --- | ||||||||
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| : | 1131859 (view as bug list) | Environment: | |||||||||
| Last Closed: | 2014-10-14 07:27:24 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||||
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| Bug Depends On: | |||||||||||
| Bug Blocks: | 1119267 | ||||||||||
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glibc does not set or own /etc/host.conf, it only reads it. Assigning to the right component. Intentional ... but performance hit is not occuring anymore - see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486461#c2 for reasoning. I recommend to change the man page instead. Created attachment 913738 [details]
host.conf.5 multi on by default
Created attachment 913986 [details]
host.conf.5 multi on by default
Created attachment 914073 [details]
host.conf.5 multi on by default
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1382.html |
Description of problem: From host.conf man page:- multi Valid values are on and off. If set to on, the resolv+ library will return all valid addresses for a host that appears in the /etc/hosts file, instead of only the first. This is off by default, as it may cause a substantial performance loss at sites with large hosts files. From RHEL 6+ that the "multi on" is set in /etc/host.conf # cat /etc/host.conf multi on cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago) Same behaviour is not observed in RHEL 5+ Is the default set wrongly, or just incorrectly documented?