On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:01:39PM -0500, Blake Hudson wrote: > Peter wrote the following on 10/16/2013 5:32 PM: > >On 10/16/2013 04:03 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: > >>Thanks for the reminder about where to locate the test programs > >>Wietse. I confirmed this appears to be an issue with RHEL5 (all > >>patches applied today). The issue is resolved in RHEL6. I am > >>running a local instance of BIND (bind-9.3.6-20.P1.el5_8.6) on > >>the affected server(s).
> >el5 also has bind97 packages, try upgrading to that and see if > >it fixes your issue. > > > BIND seems to be working fine as far as I can tell... All the > normal tools: dig, host, nslookup are working when querying either > the local BIND 9.3 instance or a remote 9.8 instance. The problem Yes, that sounds correct. When dig returns what you expect, DNS is working. > seems limited to applications that rely on the kernel function > getnameinfo. How would updating to bind 9.7 resolve that? FWIW that is a libc function, not a kernel function. And yes, you're right again; changing BIND won't help. Did you look at Red Hat's bug database? Perhaps they fixed this for RHEL5 also? -- http://rob0.nodns4.us/ -- system administration and consulting Offlist GMX mail is seen only if "/dev/rob0" is in the Subject:
