[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #7362: hosts file not utilized
- From: "leavengood" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:47:24 -0000
#7362: hosts file not utilized
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Reporter: mmadia | Owner: axeld
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Kits/Network Kit | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by leavengood):
I have several concerns based on this ticket:
1. I don't know why you would want a local hosts file checked last. On
pretty much every operating system I've used you can add to a hosts file
to override something out on the internet. This adblock host file is one
example, but in my work I've also used it to make external websites I was
testing resolve to a local host when testing things. I think we should
either add a default irs.conf to the system to force local host resolving
first or better yet override the defaults within the library.
2. It is pretty ridiculous for the DNS library to choke on Windows line
endings. The line ending should be irrelevant when parsing the hosts file.
Haiku is not the sort of system where stupid things like that should break
functionality.
3. There should be a system-wide DNS cache, and everything in the hosts
file should be pre-cached. Resolving DNS should not be adversely affected
by even a hosts file as big as this one (559 KB.)
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