All, I did some research/testing on this problem. The issue is not a "networking" one. 32-bit applications are unable to resolve DNS names on Feisty AMD64 (as of 2007-27-03). Making a modification to the /etc/nsswitch.conf file "fixes" the problem.
From: hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 To: hosts: files dns It appears that the libnss-mdns package only includes 64-bit versions of the mdns libraries. 32-bit versions are needed for 32-bit applications to make name resolutions. As a test, I manually downloaded libnss-mdns_0.9-0.2ubuntu1_i386.deb, extracted the libnss-mdns* libraries and placed them in /lib32. Using the original "hosts:" entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf, name resolution worked. Thanks Talus -- 32-bit program cannot use network on X86_64 https://launchpad.net/bugs/93000 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
