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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/net/gethostbyname.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/net/gethostbyname.3 | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/net/gethostbyname.3 b/lib/libc/net/gethostbyname.3 index e513d74..0e2006e 100644 --- a/lib/libc/net/gethostbyname.3 +++ b/lib/libc/net/gethostbyname.3 @@ -78,10 +78,15 @@ following structure describing an internet host referenced by name or by address, respectively. This structure contains either the information obtained from the name server, .Xr named 8 , -or broken-out fields from a line in -.Pa /etc/hosts . -If the local name server is not running these routines do a lookup in -.Pa /etc/hosts . +broken-out fields from a line in +.Pa /etc/hosts , +or database entries supplied by the +.Xr yp 4 +system. +The order of the lookups is controlled by the +.Sq hosts +entry in +.Xr nsswitch.conf 5 . .Bd -literal struct hostent { char *h_name; /* official name of host */ @@ -188,9 +193,9 @@ value of the .Fa err parameter. .Sh FILES -.Bl -tag -width /etc/resolv.conf -compact +.Bl -tag -width /etc/nsswitch.conf -compact .It Pa /etc/hosts -.It Pa /etc/host.conf +.It Pa /etc/nsswitch.conf .It Pa /etc/resolv.conf .El .Sh DIAGNOSTICS |
