On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 17:47:21 -, Paul Crawford wrote:
> I think this bug should concentrate on the key issue:
> that ntp (and maybe others?) is being brought up on the
> wrong event, that is it comes up with the interface, and
> not with the chosen type of name server.
More specifically, th
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 19:33:37 -, Paul Crawford wrote:
> domain, I think). I don't really understand NIS, and the
> guy usually responsible for this sort of thing is away,
> but as far as I know it only provides local-area
> user/machine authentication and so I would be surprised
> if it 'kno
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 19:33:37 -, Paul Crawford wrote:
> $ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
[...]
> hosts: files nis dns
> domain, I think). I don't really understand NIS, and the
> guy usually responsible for this sort of thing is away,
> but as far as I know it only provides local-area
> u
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 18:43:59 -, Paul Crawford wrote:
> So ping is able to perform the name-to-IP conversion fine, but host
> and nslookup both fail!
Right, host and nslookup both (attempt to) do DNS queries directly,
while ping does the lookup using libc6 library routines...
So, what do y
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 16:46:15 -, Paul Crawford wrote:
> Results for 12.04 machine are:
> $ ls -l /etc/resolv.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Apr 30 17:39 /etc/resolv.conf ->
> ../run/resolvconf/resolv.conf
>
> $ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) ge
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 16:10:39 -, Paul Crawford wrote:
> # The primary network interface
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 134.36.22.69
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 134.36.22.1
Since the resolvconf package is installed by default in Precise, you'd
normally need to have a
