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Message-ID: <20170425025043.GF27654@wopr>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 19:50:43 -0700
From: Kurt H Maier <khm@....org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add RES_OPTIONS support for resolv.conf options
overriding
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:39:34PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>
> What I'd really like is a way for users to override nameserver and
> search directives (so pretty much, all of resolv.conf) in a way that
> doesn't need root; this would be really valuable for testing. But
> sadly there's no precedent for an interface to do so. Maybe it's
> something we could work on a unified solution to with other
> implementations (glibc, bsds?).
>
> Rich
FreeBSD and OpenBSD both currently support RES_OPTIONS (and LOCALDOMAIN
for overriding the search directive) but I don't think they support
overriding the nameserver directive. There's just the HOSTALIASES
variable for pointing to a file full of 'alias hostname' pairs.
khm
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