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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; T312461)

Description of problem:
function gethostby* never try to access files /etc/host.conf and /etc/hosts 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. issue command 'host blabla' where 'blabla' any host present in /etc/hosts, 
but absend in DNS. 
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  The host program will fail to resolve it. This is true for 
both direct and back resolving. Using strace I saw that files /etc/host.conf 
and /etc/hosts never accessed.


Expected Results:  Either file /etc/host.conf or /etc/nsswitch conf should be 
accessed first. The further depends on configuration in this file. Current 
glibc ignore all this configuration files and always uses DNS to resolve 
hostnames.

Additional info:

This is very serious bug and must be fixed immediately.