Re: DNS lookups
c.evans@clear.net.nz (Carey Evans) wrote on 13.10.97 in <[🔎] 87en5qqc1f.fsf@psyche.evansnet>:
> kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) writes:
>
> > I haven't tracked that down yet, but I suspect some change in libc6.
> >
> > In any case, I've temporarily worked around it by making sure that every
> > IP used to fire up diald is locally known to my name server - /etc/hosts
> > wasn't enough.
>
> libc6 uses /etc/nsswitch.conf. I had to upgrade base-files (i think)
> to get it. The relevant line in mine is:
>
> hosts: files dns
I have the same. It's still asking the name server (I can see it sending
UDP packets via strace).
I still suspect a bug in libc6.
MfG Kai
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