Bug#555205: Browser and other apps can no longer look up DNS names

[Simon Pepping <sampepping@gmail.com>]

I have a similar problem after upgrade, but the consequences are less serious: lookup in the browser and similar apps is disfunctional: The consequences are serious enough though, because almost all web browsing is disabled.

Package: libc6
Version: 2.10.1-5
Severity: important

Browser and other apps can no longer look up DNS names. The host
program works as expected.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libc-bin                      2.10.1-5   GNU C Library: Binaries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.1-4  GCC support library

Versions of packages libc6 recommends:
ii  libc6-i686                    2.10.1-5   GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i

Versions of packages libc6 suggests:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.28     Debian configuration management sy
pn  glibc-doc                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  locales                       2.10.1-5   GNU C Library: National Language (

-- debconf information:
* glibc/upgrade: true
  glibc/disable-screensaver:
  glibc/restart-failed:
* glibc/restart-services: openbsd-inetd exim4 cups cron atd

Simon Pepping