On 27/07/14 02:25 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > > Am Sonntag, den 27.07.2014, 13:53 -0400 schrieb Daniel Dickinson: >> Package: libnss-myhostname >> Version: 0.3-6 >> Severity: serious >> >> Takes over names resolution of local host's name and causes apps that >> need FQDN instead of just >> hostname to fail (becuase myhostname fails to include a domain). > > Can you explain the problems in more detai: > What programs are affected?
I don't remember exactly which ones they were; there were a few and it was a hard to debug problem. I think one of them may have been amanda. I ditched libnss-hostname which I was installing myself sometime ago because of this issue. > What precisely do these program look up, what do they expect, and what > do they get with libnss-myhostname? They look up a hostname using glibc. You can get the same result by doing hostname --fqdn and observing that there is no domain part to returned hostname. THIS IS BROKEN. --fqdn should *always* have a domain part. > Did they previously work out-of-the box without libnss-myhostname and an > unmodified /etc/hosts, or did you have to modify /etc/hosts (i.e. add > the FQDN there)? They worked out-of-the box without libnss-myhostname, with the DNS setup I had. > If so, what happens if you still add them to /etc/hosts? It is actually the local hostname that is the issue and I have actually tried modifying /etc/hosts with <ip-address> <name>.<domain> <name> however hostname --fqdn *still* returns <name> with NO <domain>. libnss-hostname is BROKEN WRT to FQDN. Regards, Daniel > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
