Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: systemd-resolved

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mi, 15.04.20 16:30, Lennart Poettering ([e-mail]) wrote:
> On Mi, 15.04.20 15:50, Florian Weimer ([e-mail]) wrote:
> > Lennart Poettering:
> > > If /etc/resolv.conf is a regular file, resolved will *consume* it
> > > for DNS configuration, and never change it or modify it or replace
> > > it. If this mode is selected arbitrary other programs that do DNS
> > > will talk directly to the provided DNS servers, and resolved is out
> > > of the loop.
> > > In mode #1 resolved neither manages /etc/resolv.conf nor inserts
> > > itself into DNS resolution in any way.
> >
> > What will nss_resolve do in this case?  Nothing?
>
> The nss_resolve module is just a wrapper around resolved's bus
> API. And the bus API uses resolved's own DNS resolution code. And
> resolved is smart enough to automatically become a *consumer* of
> /etc/nsswitch.conf (instead of a *manager* of it) if it is a regular
> file instead of a symlink to resolved's own files in /run.

Meh. I mean /etc/resolv.conf here, of course, not /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Lennart

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