Bug#549103: libwww-perl: DNS Resolver fails to respect /etc/resolv.conf

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:21:28PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:07:46 -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> 
> > The DNS resolver in lwp-request is doing odd things:
> > lwp-request -m HEAD libraries         will bring up libraries.com
> > lwp-request -m HEAD http://libraries  will bring up libraries.ucsd.edu
> >   (I am in the uscd.edu domain)
> 
> There's indeed some interesting magic going on:

This is very much a feature, although the documentation seems to be
lacking.