[Nagiosplug-devel] RFC: gethostbyname instead of getaddrinfo

[Olivier 'Babar' Raginel]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:00:50PM +0000, Ton Voon wrote:
> On a Debian Etch system. Running tcpdump -p -i eth4 host 192.168.24.2  
> and port domain. nscd not running.
> 
> /etc/resolv.conf has:
> 
> search localdomain
> nameserver 192.168.24.2

Something I think worth mentionning is that Debian Lenny ships with 
mdns4 confgiuration, which adds one layer (2 even) per requests, as 
shown in nsswitch.conf:
# grep ^hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
Debian Etch:
hosts:          files dns
Debian Lenny:
hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4

I couldn't really mesure the impact of these changes for your current 
issue, but I think it's worth mentionning that not all OSes in the world 
have nsswitch.conf set to only "files dns".

> So I think the only thing that needs to be done in the plugins code is  
> to reduce the use of is_host.

Agreed.

-- 
Babar.