From 3d0024f25b4dbba94b93452781d34ef0c7d2538b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fredrik Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:23:15 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add info about nss-icmp. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.dolda2000.com/srv/svn/repos/src/icmp-dn@551 959494ce-11ee-0310-bf91-de5d638817bd --- src/idnlookup.1 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/idnlookup.1 b/src/idnlookup.1 index 5f84a9b..201dcbd 100644 --- a/src/idnlookup.1 +++ b/src/idnlookup.1 @@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ all too uncommon), \fBidnlookup\fP will have to time out on the IPv4 address before being able to query the IPv6 address. This bug has been fixed since, but as of this writing, only a few systems run the fixed version of glibc. +.SH NOTES +The ICMP hostname tools also ship with a nameswitch module for ICMP +hostname lookups, which can be used to automatically look up hostnames +over ICMP when a program calls \fBgethostbyaddr\fP(3) or any related +function. See the \fBnss-icmp\fP(7) man page for more information. .SH AUTHOR Fredrik Tolf .SH SEE ALSO -- 2.11.0