On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Jan De Luyck wrote: > Package: base-files > Version: 3.1.16 > Severity: normal > > > Since the last upgrade of base-files I've been having trouble with > name resolving. After a while I figured it out: when removing the > mDNS entries in /etc/nsswitch.conf, everything works perfectly.
This issue was fixed in February this year: base-files (3.1.10) unstable; urgency=medium * Removed mdns item from hosts line in default /etc/nsswitch.conf, since it does not make everybody happy (Bugs #348578, #348580 and #351990). -- Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 9 Feb 2006 18:41:22 +0100 One month later, the way /etc/nsswitch.conf is handled was changed: base-files (3.1.11) unstable; urgency=low * The file /etc/nsswitch.conf is now created by postinst in the first install (made by debootstrap), and it's no longer a conffile. -- Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 4 Mar 2006 13:26:14 +0100 If you didn't upgrade your system in a month (i.e. you skipped base-files version 3.1.10), then your system may still have the "bad" default. I would expect a user of unstable to upgrade the system more than once a month, and if it's not the case, I would expect him/her to be able to fix things like this by hand. > I can easily reproduce this in my Debian SID chroot. I bet you can't reproduce this on a newly created etch chroot, or in a newly created sid chroot, and of course, it will not happen when upgrading from sarge to etch or upgrading from etch to sid. May I close this bug? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]