On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 07:33:12PM +0100, Mikael Nilsson wrote: Hi Mikael,
Thanks for the email -- so far nothing strikes me as odd.
> Anything else that might help? In any case, the link local address does
> *not* end up in resolv.conf.
>
> Actually, putting it there manually makes address lookup work again :-)
Okay, that is weird.
> > host, should never be querying a link-local address, only looks in
> > /etc/resolv.conf -- so if there is a link-local address there, how did
> > it get there? Was it already there? Was it provided?
>
> It is not there, but the answer still comes from the link-local address
> of the router... the question is why it does *not* come from that
> address when zeroconf is not installed?
>
> >
> > If there isn't a link-local address there, then perhaps the ADSL modem
> > is generating packets with an incorrect source address? I'll need the
> > information about your resolv.conf and nsswitch file (with before/after)
> > to determine what next.
>
> Should I try to do packet capture somehow? Let me know what to try.
If you can could you send the output of, with and without zeronconf:
an strace of 'host debian.org'
a tcpdump during the same time
Thanks,
Anand
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