Bug#519774: libc6: causes many programs not to be able to resolve dns addresses
Package: libc6
Version: 2.9-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
This problem is with libc6 2.9-4, althogh my system shows below it's
using 2.7-18. I downgraded to avoid the problem.
After upgrading to 2.9-4 most programs on my system are no longer able
to resolve dns addresses, when connecting to the internet via dhcp with
a dsl connection.
"aptitude update" returns this error for every repository: "Err
http://security.debian.org testing/updates/contrib Translation-en_US
Could not resolve 'security.debian.org'"
Evolution can not send emails, the gnome weather panel applet cannont
retrieve information online, etc. Although iceweasel continues to work
okay.
Upon suggestion from another user, I found that if I configure my system
with a specific numerical dns server address, for example from opendns,
this serves as a work around. But if the dns server is just the name of
my ip (which is the way dhcp configures it) then the problem arises.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-3 GCC support library
libc6 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages libc6 suggests:
pn glibc-doc <none> (no description available)
ii libc6-i686 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
ii locales 2.7-18 GNU C Library: National Language (
-- debconf information:
glibc/upgrade: true
glibc/restart-failed:
glibc/restart-services:
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