On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:19:18PM +0200, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:58:58PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:42:48PM +0200, Pieter-Tjerk de Boer wrote: > > > Package: libc6-i386 > > > Version: 2.7-18 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > The function getaddrinfo() in the i386 compatibility library returns > > > -2 (i.e. EAI_NONAME) for any query, while getaddrinfo() in the amd64 > > > library does find the host and returns 0. > > > > > > > What is the contents of your /etc/nsswitch.conf file? It most probably > > contains an entry available on amd64, but not in i386. > > Thanks! > Indeed, /etc/nsswitch.conf contained this entry: > > hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 > > and there is no such thing as a /lib32/libnss_mdns4_minimal on my > system. > Removing the "[NOTFOUND=return]" part resolves the problem, though > I don't understand why: based on libc.info, I would expect that in > the absence of a libnss_mdns4_minimal, 'unavail' would be returned, > not 'notfound'. > > Anyway, the problem is now gone for me, but it would be nice if it > could be fixed in the distribution. My current system is a fresh > install done a few weeks ago, and I did not edit this file by hand, > so apparently it was set up like this by some package, though I don't > know which, nor why... >
This file is edited by libnss-mdns. Installing lib32nss-mdns should fix the problem. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
