On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 at 10:35:11 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 at 18:29:22 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > I am reassigning the bug to libnss-mdns, as it should either not set
> > [NOTFOUND=return] in /etc/nsswitch.conf, or depends on lib32nss-mdns on
> > biarch architectures.
[...]
> It looks as though libc correctly interprets a NSS module that isn't installed
> (foo, bar, 32-bit mdns4_minimal and 32-bit mdns4 here) as "UNAVAIL" (service
> unavailable, name might exist or not, default action is to continue),
> not "NOTFOUND" (name authoritatively does not exist, we stop processing).
>
> Did libc perhaps previously misinterpret a missing NSS module as NOTFOUND?
> Or perhaps before nss-mdns was multiarch, the 32-bit libc would try to
> dlopen the 64-bit mdns4_minimal module, fail, and interpret that as NOTFOUND?
It looks as though this might have been a glibc < 2.11 bug, fixed in
commit 657317537c0?
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