Re: Slink's libc6 breaks ftp, telnet, etc...
I have the following entries in my /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver
domain
search
The bug # is 34263
At a moment, I am just confused how everything works, named, bind,
/etc/resolv.conf....
Could someone please clarify on this??
Jay Barbee wrote:
> Hummm...
>
> I actually do have /etc/resolv.conf. It is odd that I also run BIND but
> only in a caching mode. My resolve.conf does not point to my box as being
> a choice for one of the name services, but it still uses server 0.0.0.0
> (mybox) as the name server.
>
> Very odd, but still not my problem. It was link that in Hamm, and I
> believe Bo too.
>
> So if resolve.conf fixes your problem... what do you have in resolve.conf,
> that I do not have? What are the permissions?
>
> I still think it is a bug. Do you have a bug-track number for it?
>
> Thanks for the reply,
> --Jay Barbee
>
> At 3/26/99 10:45 AM +0000, Shao Zhang wrote:
> >I have already raised a bug on that. It is not really a bug though. You can
> >fix the
> >problem
> >by adding a /etc/resolv.conf. Then your dns should work again.
> >
> >What I don't know is:
> > why for earlier libc6 package, we don't need a resolv.conf
> > While for the libc6 in slink, we must have one....
> >
> >Jay Barbee wrote:
> >
> >> I just upgraded my HAMM system to SLINK. However after all was said and
> >> done I got an error during telnet, wget and ftp.. and ncftp gave me no
> >> errors at all.
> >>
> >> The problem is in the libc6 2.0.7.19981211-6 package. With this package
> >> installed I get the following error: Host name lookup failure
> >>
> >> If I go back and add the old package (libc6_2.0.7t-1). I do not have this
> >> problem.
> >>
> >> I have installed SLINK from scratch on a laptop and a friend's system. I
> >> did not get these errors then, so why now? Is this a bug? Anyone else see
> >> this?
> >>
> >> --Jay Barbee
> >>
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Email: shao@cia.edu.au |___/
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