These pages helped me get the resolver going. They might be applicable to Debian as well.
http://www.i-dns.net/download/libc-freebsd/readme.txt http://www.i-dns.net/download/libc-linux/readme.txt Bruce > > Depending on your resolver. On my Debian GNU/Linux system, "dig" can > successfully look up alings�s.com.nu, and so can "host" (which warns > that the name is illegal but prints the IP address anyway). But the > resolver won't have it: > > > ping alings�s.com.nu > ping: unknown host alings�s.com.nu > > I tried adding "options no-check-names" to /etc/resolv.conf, but that > had no effect. I then tried changing it to "options no-check-names > debug", but I got no debugging messages. I don't know what's going on > with the resolver. I'm using glibc 2.2.5. > >
