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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2022-09-13 16:10:20 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2022-09-20 13:09:25 +0200
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nss: Implement --no-addrconfig option for getent
The ahosts, ahostsv4, ahostsv6 commands unconditionally pass
AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo, which is not always desired.

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ Version 2.37
 
 Major new features:
 
-  [Add new features here]
+* The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
+  getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
+  configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
+  AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
 
 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: