From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: The /etc/host.conf file is obsoleted by /etc/nsswitch.conf. This is supposed to only be for libc4/libc5 binaries. It should be indicated as obsolete in the man page, and probably as a comment in the distributed /etc/host.conf. There is still a reference to it in /lib/libc-2.3.3.so, so it may need to be kept around for a while. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): setup-2.5.33-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: N/A Additional info:
After discussions with the libc maintainer, this isn't really something we want to change. It's needed for compatibility, and is not actually completely replaced by NSS.