Package: curl Version: 7.18.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #478864 curl always fails when trying to resolve a host name. Interestingly, if I run curl under strace, it succeeds. I have no idea as to why this might be the case. So $ curl http://yahoo.com curl: (6) Resolving host timed out: yahoo.com $ strace curl http://yahoo.com 2> /dev/null The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.yahoo.com/">here</A>.<P> <!-- p3.rc.re4.yahoo.com uncompressed/chunked Sat May 31 05:17:34 PDT 2008 -->
Strange, but true. Does this make any sense to you? -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages curl depends on: ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcurl3 7.18.1-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime curl recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]