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author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2016-02-19 17:00:47 +0100 |
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committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2016-02-19 17:00:47 +0100 |
commit | aff8c7a9a700d31bdbc0ccb1b8f594ab62255e16 (patch) | |
tree | a275e271d8010340e5dca2362bd6c6f2ffec3eac /resolv/res_init.c | |
parent | 6793dd51d8e7d4f3408c183c6f7dc86acd7f1330 (diff) | |
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res_ninit: Update comment
Since commit e66e7419a6f58200eec6941b14e2dcff9875cc6c (Actually make it possible to user the default name server.), the default is INADDR_LOOPBACK, not INADDR_ANY.
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/resolv/res_init.c b/resolv/res_init.c index e0b6a80dc7..128004afb8 100644 --- a/resolv/res_init.c +++ b/resolv/res_init.c @@ -118,21 +118,7 @@ unsigned long long int __res_initstamp attribute_hidden; /* * Set up default settings. If the configuration file exist, the values * there will have precedence. Otherwise, the server address is set to - * INADDR_ANY and the default domain name comes from the gethostname(). - * - * An interrim version of this code (BIND 4.9, pre-4.4BSD) used 127.0.0.1 - * rather than INADDR_ANY ("0.0.0.0") as the default name server address - * since it was noted that INADDR_ANY actually meant ``the first interface - * you "ifconfig"'d at boot time'' and if this was a SLIP or PPP interface, - * it had to be "up" in order for you to reach your own name server. It - * was later decided that since the recommended practice is to always - * install local static routes through 127.0.0.1 for all your network - * interfaces, that we could solve this problem without a code change. - * - * The configuration file should always be used, since it is the only way - * to specify a default domain. If you are running a server on your local - * machine, you should say "nameserver 0.0.0.0" or "nameserver 127.0.0.1" - * in the configuration file. + * INADDR_LOOPBACK and the default domain name comes from gethostname. * * Return 0 if completes successfully, -1 on error */ |