nss-hostslocal 0.10

    Copyright 2010 Adrian Petrescu <apetresc@gmail.com>
      * [1]License
      * [2]News
      * [3]Overview
      * [4]Current Status
      * [5]Documentation
      * [6]Requirements
      * [7]Installation
      * [8]Acknowledgements
      * [9]Download

License

   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
   published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
   License, or (at your option) any later version.

   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
   WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
   Lesser General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
   License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
   Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

News

   Wed Dec 1 2010:

   [1] Development begun on version 0.1.

Overview

   nss-hostslocal is a plugin for the GNU Name Service Switch (NSS)
   functionality of the GNU C Library (glibc) providing per-user
   .hosts file, analogous to the global /etc/hosts file.

Current Status

   Development has only just begun.

Documentation

   After compiling and installing nss-hostslocal you'll find a new NSS
   module in /lib:
     * libnss_hostslocal.so.2

   To activate the NSS module you have to edit the /etc/nsswitch.conf
   and add hostslocal to the line starting with "hosts:". On Debian this
   looks like this:
# /etc/nsswitch.conf

passwd:		compat
group:		compat
shadow:		compat

hosts:		files hostslocal dns
networks:	files

protocols:	db files
services:	db files
ethers:		db files
rpc:		db files

netgroup:	nis

   That's it. You should now be able to resolve hosts specified in a
   user's ~/.hosts file with all your applications. For a quick check
   use glibc's getent tool:
$ getent hosts foo.local
192.168.50.4	foo.local

   Replace foo with a host name that has been added to the running
   user's ~/.hosts file.

Requirements

   Currently, nss-hostslocal is tested on Linux only. A fairly modern glibc
   installation with development headers (2.0 or newer) is required.

   nss-hostslocal was developed and tested on Ubuntu GNU/Linux "Maverick"
   from December 2010, but it should work on most other Linux distributions
   (and maybe Unix versions) since it uses GNU autoconf and GNU libtool for
   source code configuration and shared library management.

Installation

   As this package is made with the GNU autotools you should run
   ./configure inside the distribution directory for configuring the source
   tree. After that you should run make for compilation and make install
   (as root) for installation of nss-hostslocal.

Acknowledgements

   Lennary Poettering and his nss-mdns module which served as a template
   for this one.

Download

   The newest release is always available from GitHub at:
   http://github.com/apetresc/nss-hostslocal

   The current release is 0.10
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    Adrian Petrescu <apetresc@gmail.com>, December 2010