215641 - DNS: hosts file entry for host on local subnet ignored (firebird 0.6.1)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Jim Bennett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Similar bugs have been reported for <b>Mozilla</b> (<a
href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186453>186453</a>, <a
href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195823>195823</a>, <a
href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204955>204955</a>) but none
have been reported for <b>firebird</b>. <p>Firebird 0.6.1 seems to ignore
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts entries, at least those for hosts on the
local subnet. IE 6, run on the same box, does not have this problem. As a
result, firebird 0.6.1 can't resolve URL using the host name specified in the
hosts file, while IE 6 can.</p>

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. assume your local subnet is 111.222.333.x
2. put an entry in c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts for a host on this
subnet, e.g. "111.222.333.2 MyLinuxBox"
3. fire up firebird 0.6.1. Direct firebird to "http://MyLinuxBox".
Actual Results:  
a. firebird tries to resolve this URL for awhile and then goes out to the
internet to try to find something close, returning something like
http://my.stupidsite.com/MyLinuxBox.html.
b. Try the same thing in IE 6.
c. IE 6 immediately resolves the host correctly, as specified in
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts


Expected Results:  
Firebird should have checked c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, found the
entry for MyLinuxBox, and resolved the URL http://MyLinuxBox to 111.222.333.2,
as listed in that hosts entry.

Comment 1

[Jim Bennett]

sorry about the extraneous html tags; I'm a bugzilla newbie.

Comment 2

[Jim Bennett]

This occured on my office box, which might be running firebird 0.6 instead of
0.6.1. Will double check on Aug 11 03

Comment 3

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Backend issue. -> DUPE

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 195823 ***

Comment 4

[benc]

REOPEN: Most of 195823 is Mac-only

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Reassigning

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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