Re: apts: something wicked happend resolving 'http.us.debian.org/http '

[Russ Pitman <russ@tasman.net.au>]

Jason,
Will do later this evening, I'm a bit lost on bind tho.

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 12:05:13AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Russ Pitman wrote:
> 
> > Postfix broke with a stuck mail queue, apt-get broke again and I have just
> > finished reinstalling potato on a separate drive to enable mail.
> > I reckon I will stay down here for mail until I can find out how to 
> > repair woody 'cos there is a heap off apps there I don't have room 
> > for on this drive.
> 
> Try installing your own copy of bind setup with no forwarders and set your
> resolv.conf to only use localhost.
> 
> If that solves it then it would confirm my theory that this is caused by
> buggy DNS servers messing with glibc's new logic...
> 
> Someone really needs to look into this in detail, but I don't know of
> anyone who can reproduce it at will. If you can do this (by editing your
> resolv.conf) then I think we can probably find it..
> 
> Jason
> 

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