Bug#479144: libc6-i386: in some 32bit apps, resolving fails when lib32nss-mdns is not installed
reassign 479144 libnss-mdns
thanks
A Mennucc a écrit :
> Package: libc6-i386
> Version: 2.7-10
> Severity: important
>
> hi
>
> This bug was found when trying to use the upstream binary of firefox 3.0
> inside a amd64 Debian (or Ubuntu). In some situations, firefox cannot
> resolve hostnames (and is then completely unusable).
>
> Here is the bug, as described by Sylvain Pasche in
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414197
> vvvvvvvv
> I've been seeing this on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 64bit too. Any trunk or branch 32bit
> build fails to resolve hostnames. After some debugging I could isolate that the
> getaddrinfo() libc call is always failing to resolve anything.
>
> I turns out I was missing the lib32nss-mdns package. The /etc/nsswitch.conf
> default configuration contains:
>
> hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
Wrong this is not the default configuration of /etc/nsswitch.conf. This
is the configuration installed by libnss-mdns. libc6-i386 works
perfectly without lib32nss-mdns, no need to install it.
Reassigning the bug.
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