Hello,
Since the introduction of glibc-2.1.94 into Woody I randomly get name-resolution
failures. Not all applications seem to be affected equally, it seems that apt-get is
having problems more often than other software but it's not limited to apt-get.
The problem appears to be completely random, and comes and goes. It occurs with both
2.2.x and 2.4.xtest kernels.
Name resolution never really fails for all sites; I might be perfectly able to resolve
www.debian.org for instance, while totally unable to resolve ftp.uk.debian.org. And
then after a while, perhaps ten minutes, perhaps more, sometimes less, it works again.
I have never seen this kind of problem until the glibc upgrade; name-resolution
sometimes failes due to DNS weirdness of my provider but never in this way.
In case it's of any help, I attached ltrace and strace output for telnet.
Does anyone experience similar problems? Or have any clues as to what I can do to fix
the problem or debug it?
I can't remember having seen any notices of it on the glibc-mailing list, but I'm not
subscribed to it and don't follow it religiously.
Any help is appreciated!
regards,
--Tim
telnet-strace
telnet-ltrace
