Re: [PATCH] remove our DNS code

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 16:26 -0500, Chris Lumens wrote:
> The attached patch removes all our own DNS code from isys and replaces
> it with the glibc NSS functions.  We're already shipping libnss_dns.so
> so this doesn't add any size (well, it adds 27k to the initrd).  I'm
> hoping this will clear up some weird issues I have been seeing lately
> involving ks= not working.

Seems reasonable now that we're dynamically linking anyway.  The only
reason we had our own code is that you have to have nss (name switching,
not the ssl-alike) for glibc nameserver lookups to work which isn't the
case with static linking

Jeremy