Re: WINS - name resolution error

[Alexandre GRIVEAUX <agriveaux@deutnet.info>]

Hello,

Why did you use WINS instead DNS ?

Are you inside a WINS network ?

Thanks

Le 09/11/2016 à 19:50, Felipe Salvador a écrit :
> Hi,
> starting from 2016-11-07 whit the daily upgrade (detail attached) I
> spot these errors:
>
> ~$ ping google.com
> ping: debian.com: Errore di sistema # literally "System error"
>
> and, in the attempt to download email:
>
> mpop: cannot locate host pop.*.com: File o directory non esistente #
> file or directory not found
>
>
> These errors seems to be related to wins, a workaround I found is to
> remove or move back "wins" in /etc/nsswitch.conf, form:
>
> hosts:          files wins dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=continue] mdns4
>
> to
>
> hosts:          files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=continue] wins mdns4
>
> I have tired, without success, to edit STATUS>ACTION field as follow:
>
> hosts:          files wins [UNAVAIL=continue] dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=continue] mdns4
>
>
> I would open a bug report but cannot figure out who is the culprit, it must be among the upgraded
> packages, among these I suspect libwbclient0, I've done some tests
> whit strace and ldd, but I'm not sure. 
>
> Regards
>