Erratic DNS failures in Rawhide

[Thomas Janssen]

2009/7/2 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>:
> When I updated from F-11 to Rawhide, I started having serious and severe
> DNS failures. Enabling the nscd service seems to temporarily resolve
> these issues, but eventually nscd seems to die and DNS stops working.
>
> Some applications (e.g. chromium) don't seem to be suffering this fate,
> while others (e.g. firefox, thunderbird, yum) do.
>
> I'm pretty sure that glibc is to blame here, but I'm not even sure how
> to appropriately file this bug. Is anyone else seeing this?

Almost the same symptoms here with a broken nss-mdns package from
updates-testing in F10-x86_64 (0.10-6).
Can't sadly reproduce it in rawhide right now, since i was able to
break it somehow :)

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LG Thomas

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