Bug#757941: busybox-static: DNS resolver stopped working in busybox-static version 1.22.0-7
Package: busybox-static
Version: 1:1.22.0-8
Severity: important
When trying to ping an address, like debian.org, with busybox-static you
get a "ping: bad address 'debian.org'" error.
I knew that version 1.22.0-6 of busybox-static was working, so I also
downloaded version 1.22.0-7 and 1.22.0-8 and tested those:
# ./busybox-1.22.0-6 ping -c 1 debian.org
PING debian.org (200.17.202.197): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 200.17.202.197: seq=0 ttl=49 time=307.969 ms
--- debian.org ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 307.969/307.969/307.969 ms
# ./busybox-1.22.0-7 ping -c 1 debian.org
ping: bad address 'debian.org'
# ./busybox-1.22.0-8 ping -c 1 debian.org
ping: bad address 'debian.org'
So that means this bug was introduced with version 1.22.0-7.
Note that the non-static version does work properly (tested version
1.22.0-8).
It makes the package rather unusable, but I'll leave it up to the
maintainer to raise the severity.
Regards,
Diederik
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
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Foreign Architectures: i386
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