On Thu,14.May.09, 10:30:44, Old Crankbuster wrote: [DNS troubles in sid] > What do I need to look at? Maybe this NEWS entry? ,----[ /usr/share/doc/libc6/NEWS.Debian ] | glibc (2.9-8) unstable; urgency=low | | Starting with version 2.9-8, unified IPv4/IPv6 lookup have been enabled | in the glibc's resolver. This is faster, fixes numerous of bugs, but is | problematic on some broken DNS servers and/or wrongly configured | firewalls. | | If such a DNS server is detected, the resolver switches (permanently | for that process) to a mode where the second request is sent only when | the first answer has been received. This means the first request will | be timeout, but subsequent requests should be fast again. This | behaviour can be enabled permanently by adding 'single-request' to | /etc/resolv.conf. | | -- Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:14:32 +0200 `---- Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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