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On Mon, 18 May 2009 23:19:41 +0200 |
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Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > have you tried revdep-rebuild?! and rebuilding pdnsd?! |
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Well, I think that I have solved the problem -- or at least have |
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accidentally stumbled upon the solution. |
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With the new glibc-2.10.0 and pdnsd, DNS lookups from software such |
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as firefox, wget, curl, and email clients would fail. However, DNS lookups |
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form other programs such as host and nslookup would not fail. The difference |
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was traced to the use of the glibc gethostbyname() routine and the /etc/resolv.conf |
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file. |
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I am still not able to fully understand what's going on, but if I keep the |
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/etc/resolv.conf file intact while using pdnsd, all DNS lookups are successful. |
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Previously, pdnsd did not require the use of the /etc/resolv.conf file |
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because its own configuration file specified the name servers to use. |
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For this reason I had always deleted the /etc/resolv.conf file before using |
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pdnsd. However, with the new glibc-2.10.1, the gesthostbyname() routine most |
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likely is failing if the /etc/resolv.conf is not present. This is just a guess |
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but it seems plausible. With the /etc/resolv.conf file present, the gethostbyname() |
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routine is able to pass on to pdnsd. |
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Only with further debugging and tracing would it be possible to get an |
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accurate picture, but since pdnsd now functions normally, I'll just accept |
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things as they now stand. |
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In conclusion, a bug is not present anywhere. Pdnsd has an unconventional |
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configuration scheme and this now causes problems if the user decides to eliminate |
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the /etc/resolv.conf file. |
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Frank Peters |
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