Bug#555205: Browser and other apps can no longer look up DNS names

[Simon Pepping-4]

I have a similar problem after upgrade, but the consequences are less serious: lookup in the browser and similar apps is disfunctional: The consequences are serious enough though, because almost all web browsing is disabled.

Package: libc6
Version: 2.10.1-5
Severity: important

Browser and other apps can no longer look up DNS names. The host
program works as expected.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libc-bin                      2.10.1-5   GNU C Library: Binaries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.1-4  GCC support library

Versions of packages libc6 recommends:
ii  libc6-i686                    2.10.1-5   GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i

Versions of packages libc6 suggests:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.28     Debian configuration management sy
pn  glibc-doc                     <none>     (no description available)
ii  locales                       2.10.1-5   GNU C Library: National Language (

-- debconf information:
* glibc/upgrade: true
  glibc/disable-screensaver:
  glibc/restart-failed:
* glibc/restart-services: openbsd-inetd exim4 cups cron atd

Simon Pepping

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 10:29:17AM +0100, Simon Pepping wrote:

> I have a similar problem after upgrade, but the consequences are less
> serious: lookup in the browser and similar apps is disfunctional: The
> consequences are serious enough though, because almost all web browsing is
> disabled.
>
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.10.1-5
> Severity: important
>
> Browser and other apps can no longer look up DNS names. The host
> program works as expected.
>

Either add a nameserver entry to /etc/resolv.conf, or upgrade to version
2.10.1-7 where this problem is fixed.

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[Simon Pepping-4]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:10, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@...> wrote:

Either add a nameserver entry to /etc/resolv.conf, or upgrade to version
2.10.1-7 where this problem is fixed.

This works. Actually, I added  'nameserver 127.0.0.1' to /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base and ran 'resolvconf -d'.

This means that my problem actually belongs to bug #552010. It is regrettable that this nasty known problem is propagated to testing without warning. If I would have had only one computer, I would have been forced to go to the competition to be able to report the problem. :-)

Thanks for your quick reply.

Simon Pepping