Opened 3 years ago
Last modified 3 years ago
#2335 closed defect
no resolver defined to resolve localhost — at Version 1
| Reported by: | Owned by: | ||
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | nginx-1.21 |
| Component: | nginx-core | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| uname -a: | Linux linux 5.3.18-150300.59.54-default #1 SMP Sat Mar 5 10:00:50 UTC 2022 (1d0fa95) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 | ||
| nginx -V: |
/usr/local/nginx/sbin $ ./nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.21.6 built by gcc 7.5.0 (SUSE Linux) configure arguments: |
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Description (last modified by )
I just downloaded nginx-1.21.6.tar.gz and tried a proxy pass configuration to "localhost"
the error.log contains
[error] 10208#0: *6 no resolver defined to resolve localhost
IMHO this is a bug because localhost can be resolved by the OS resolver. see below
2nd, the error message text ist misleading, because I do not have to configure a DNS server within nginx because the OS is responsible to provide DNS service. no one configures DNS server in e.g. haproxy,squid,a....e,varnish ;)
"localhost" is no hostname that belongs to any global DNS zone, so it makes no sense to even put it into a DNS zone.
every major OS has "localhost" entries in /etc/hosts or other files accordingly to make this name available. therefore "localhost" is available without DNS whatsoever and even without a working network configuration e.g. offline. (as long as nsswitch works correctly)
I'm using GNU/Linux openSUSE 15.3 if that is any of interest.
using the local resolver (without DNS server):
/usr/local/nginx/sbin $ getaddrinfo localhost family:10 socktype: 1 protocol: 6 addr:::1(28) family: 2 socktype: 1 protocol: 6 addr:127.0.0.1(16) /usr/local/nginx/sbin $ /usr/local/nginx/sbin $ getent ahosts localhost ::1 STREAM localhost ::1 DGRAM ::1 RAW 127.0.0.1 STREAM 127.0.0.1 DGRAM 127.0.0.1 RAW /usr/local/nginx/sbin $
mayby linked to #2259, but nginx could resolve localhost at the start or reload
