new rawhide glibc

[Yanko Kaneti]

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 08:08 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> > nscd is not installed. I have not used it at any point. Did try on
> > another machine and against different nameservers with the same result.
> > One machine has search in resolv.conf the other doesn't.
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> > # curl www.newegg.com
> > curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'www.newegg.com'
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> You'll have to provide more information.  strace output,
> wireshark/tcpdump logs, ...
> 
> The problem I saw and which I fixed was that the server answering for
> that domain deliberately doesn't reply to IPv6 (T_AAAA) queries.  I.e.,
> it depends on the client to time out.  That's terribly bad practice and
> the provider should change that.
> 
> Anyway, I think I fixed that in the new lookup code and, as I said, it
> works for me.  I cannot imagine what you're seeing.
> 
> So, make really sure you're using the -4 rpms and then run
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>    strace -o LOG getent ahosts www.newegg.com
> 
> and also capture the net traffic (just port 53 data) and stuff it all
> into a new BZ.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448117

There are two namservers in resolv.conf which might be the tripping
point? Sorry for failing to mention that before.


P.S John, I believe this is about the new glibc in fedora rawhide only
resolver code behaving differently than the old code  and not about
newegg.com having crappy dns.