gethostbyaddr without /etc/{resolv,nsswitch}.conf

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Should the DNS name service always return NSS_STATUS_UNAVAIL when
> resolv.conf is missing?  Or should the default config for reverse hosts
> lookups be “dns files”?  Or...?

This is really a policy issue that should be discussed on libc-alpha
and documented and or code fixed and then documented.

Cheers,
Carlos.