~/.hosts patch

[John-Mark Gurney]

John Birrell wrote this message on Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 07:31 +0000:
> We need to retain the integrity of a DNS lookup. If there are any work
> arounds required for poor DNS lookups, then let an administrator configure
> them!

As long as we allow libraries to be preloaded on binaries, someone can
override the resolver library, and have their own hooks there...  Killing
this feature doesn't make anything more secure for the user...

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