Re: Neon and reverse address lookup

[Andreas Enge]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 04:40:43PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> The issue is that the default config for the ‘hosts’ database when
> resolv.conf is missing is (see nss/hosts-lookup.c):
>   dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files
> When doing a host name lookup, ‘dns’ is unavailable, so we go on with
> ‘files’ and /etc/hosts is honored as expected.
> However, when doing a reverse lookup, the DNS resolver
> (__libc_res_nquery) returns ‘notfound’, and so ‘gethostbyaddr’ returns
> immediately.
> Changing the ‘hosts’ config to “dns files” solves this particular.
> I’ll ask for advice on libc-help.

Did anything come out of this? How should I proceed for the neon package?

Andreas