Bug 32157 - an innocent-looking space before 'nameserver' in resolv.conf confuses resolver
Summary: an innocent-looking space before 'nameserver' in resolv.conf confuses resolver
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: binutils
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-03-18 21:27 UTC by Dan Kenigsberg
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-03-18 21:27:49 UTC
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Description Dan Kenigsberg 2001-03-18 21:27:46 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686)


I added a space just before the nameserver keyword in /etc/resov.conf. 
This resulted in a failure to find a default dns.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. just start a nameserver line with a space
	

Actual Results:  for example, nslookup says the address of the Default
Server is 0.0.0.0
Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2001-03-19 15:05:10 UTC 
The resolv.conf format does not allow space there, so it was not innocent.
glibc has never allowed spaces there and I don't think it is necessary to
make changes for this. Note that e.g. Solaris does not allow spaces there either.
Comment 2 Dan Kenigsberg 2001-03-19 21:29:21 UTC 
Ok, so it's not a bug, but it is sure ugly.

P.S. The bug is probably in kppp which made the first space initially. But I
fail to reproduce this one...
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