How does Boost Asio's hostname resolution work on Linux? Is it possible to use NSS?

Question

I\'m attempting to make my networked application work locally (with both the server and client running on the same computer) when there is no network connection. This seems to

Answer 1

The problem was that the constructor for query has the address_configured flag set by default which won't return an address if the loopback device is the only device with an address. By just settings flags to 0 or anything other than address_configured the problem is fixed. Here is what I'm successfully using now:

tcp::resolver::query query(host, PORT, boost::asio::ip::resolver_query_base::numeric_service);

Hope this helps anyone with this problem in the future.