Re: Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-09 Thread Hugh Lawson
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2009-05-08 14:28 +0200, Hugh Lawson wrote: >> My newly installed squeeze has problems with DNS. Specificially, Emacs >> gnus and evolution cannot reliably find their respective servers. Sven wrote: > This seems to be a libc6 problem, see bugs #516218ยน and #517360

Re: Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-08 Thread Sven Joachim
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 insta

Re: Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-08 Thread Martin McCormick
Hugh Lawson writes: > Bob Cox writes: > > [ snip ] > fetchmail: getaddrinfo("pop-server.triad.rr.com","pop3") error: Name or I tried the following: host -a pop-server.triad.rr.com to see what sort of DNS lookup we get: Trying "pop-server.triad.rr.com" pop-server.triad.rr.com. 232IN

Re: Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-08 Thread Hugh Lawson
Bob Cox writes: [ snip ] Hugh wrote: >> My newly installed squeeze has problems with DNS. Specificially, Emacs >> gnus and evolution cannot reliably find their respective servers. Bob asks: > What do you see if you run fetchmail directly from the command line with > fetchmail -vvv ? Hugh

Re: Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-08 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 08:28:15 -0400, Hugh Lawson (hlaw...@triad.rr.com) wrote: > Hello, > > 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 configu