Re: Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-09 Thread Hugh Lawson
Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de 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

Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-08 Thread Hugh Lawson
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 configuration, but I can't find it. My newly installed squeeze has problems with DNS.

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

Re: Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-08 Thread Hugh Lawson
Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com 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

Re: Debian squeeze (testing) dns problems

2009-05-08 Thread Martin McCormick
Hugh Lawson writes: Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com 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

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 installed