Re: c-ares: Adding new lookup types to config_lookup

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Steve Cotton wrote:

> Currently lwres probably doesn't add much, as the lwres daemon forwards the
> requests as DNS requests.
>
> However, the current libc-ares fails rather than falling back to
> DNS if /etc/nsswitch.conf contains
> hosts: files lwres

Right, thinking about this further I think you're right and features that make
c-ares more suitable as drop-in replacement for the existing name resolving
functionality has a point in getting supported. This then includes lwres...

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