Rich,

I will make the change, but so I understand some more what would be the implications of not ignoring it in this scenario? I understand why it is bad in the case of the load paths for example but just want to understand the issue in this context.

- Stefan

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 7:50 PM Kurt H Maier <khm@sdf.org> wrote:

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