From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/11285 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kurt H Maier Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add RES_OPTIONS support for resolv.conf options overriding Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 19:50:43 -0700 Message-ID: <20170425025043.GF27654@wopr> References: <20170425022122.27281-1-stefan.sedich@gmail.com> <20170425023934.GT17319@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1493088657 19830 195.159.176.226 (25 Apr 2017 02:50:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 02:50:57 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-11300-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Apr 25 04:50:53 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d2qZ2-00051h-B0 for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2017 04:50:52 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 27822 invoked by uid 550); 25 Apr 2017 02:50:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 27804 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2017 02:50:56 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170425023934.GT17319@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:11285 Archived-At: 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