Hello Michael, Some update wrt resolver.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:51:44AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > reassign 692136 manpages > retitle 692136: manpages: resolv.conf should not mention RES_OPTIONS=debug > thanks > > On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 03:37:36PM +0100, Simon Heimberg wrote: > > Package: libc6 > > Version: 2.13-36 > > Severity: minor [..] > > I tried to debug problems in dns name resolution. I found out that > > 'RES_OPTIONS=debug ping a.b.c.d' does not print any debug output. Also no > > othe > > program (like wget) does. Writing options debug in /etc.resolc.conf does > > also > > not change anything. > > > > The problem is that the RES_DEBUG is only considered when DEBUGGING is set. > > (In res_setoptions() of res_init.c) [..] > The resolver code is deliberately not build with DEBUG by default, as > stated in the sources in resolv/README: > > | * The RES_DEBUG option (`options debug' in /etc/resolv.conf) has been > | disabled. > > For me it is therefore a documentation issue. I am therefore reassigning > this bug to the manpages package. And for the record, it seems this has been the case in glibc since a very long time committer Roland McGrath <rol...@gnu.org> Sat, 18 Feb 1995 01:27:10 +0000 (01:27 +0000) commit 28f540f45bbacd939bfd07f213bcad2bf730b1bf http://repo.or.cz/w/glibc.git/blob/28f540f45bbacd939bfd07f213bcad2bf730b1bf:/resolv/res_init.c Wording proposal (for both resolv.conf.5 and resolver.3): This option needs glibc to be build with debugging enabled, which is not the default. If the wording is fine to you, I will provide proper patch. -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
