Bug 665964
Summary: | /etc/host.conf is obsolete | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | ritz <rkhadgar> |
Component: | setup | Assignee: | Ondrej Vasik <ovasik> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | ovasik, pknirsch, spoyarek |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
OS: | Unspecified | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Clone Of: | 665962 | Environment: | |
Last Closed: | 2011-01-03 11:51:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
ritz
2010-12-28 05:53:11 UTC
Well - I tend to say this is NOTABUG - as /etc/host.conf is still in use in glibc (recently we added multi on option to default /etc/host.conf to allow localhost alias even on IPv6 machine). Anyway - man page documenting host.conf file is coming from man-pages package and glibc resolve/res_hconf.c still uses /etc/host.conf - so I think https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=144687 is no longer correct. Feel free to explain why it should be considered deprecated - and discuss this with glibc maintainer - Andreas Schwab - first. Closing NOTABUG - file still in use (and res_hconf.c uses it by default - with no use of nsswitch.conf). host.conf is in fact used by glibc is not completely obsolete. But there is no reason for it to be installed by default with the line: order bind,hosts since the order keyword is precisely the one that does not do anything anymore. Keeping this intact in a default installation gives the wrong impression that the line is in use. At the minimum, we could remove this 'order' line and install a blank file in case removal of the file creates confusion about the file not being in use at all. Can we reopen this bz? |