Bypassing DNS?

Paul Lussier p.lussier at comcast.net
Thu Feb 23 12:42:01 EST 2006


Hi all,

Is there a way to tell the resolver libs that if you can't connect to
the DNS service, to just abort and return? Setting /etc/nsswitch.conf to 

  hosts: dns [unavail=continue|return] files

still seems to result in a slight hang while the lookup occurs... 

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Seeya,
Paul



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