On 2009-05-08 14:28 +0200, Hugh Lawson wrote: > I hope there will be some suggestions for this. This is a single-user > box, managed by an amateur (me). This is surprising and baffling; it > makes me suspect I've made some basic error in configuration, but I > can't find it. > > My newly installed squeeze has problems with DNS. Specificially, Emacs > gnus and evolution cannot reliably find their respective servers.
This seems to be a libc6 problem, see bugs #516218¹ and #517360². You may want to upgrade the libc6 package to the version in sid -- but avoid version 2.9-11, it is broken as well³. Either install 2.9-10 or wait for 2.9-12. Sven ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516218 ² http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517360 ³ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=527541 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
