On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> wrote:
> Here are my results: > > ======================== > Making resolv.conf empty > Results of looking up www.google.com: status = -11, errno = 111 > Results of looking up a bogus name: status = -11, errno = 111 > Writing nameserver option to resolv.conf > Results of looking up www.google.com: status = 0, errno = 101 > Results of looking up a bogus name: status = -2, errno = 101 > Making resolv.conf empty > Results of looking up www.google.com: status = -11, errno = 111 > Results of looking up a bogus name: status = -11, errno = 111 > Writing incorrect nameserver option to resolv.conf > Results of looking up www.google.com: status = -11, errno = 110 > Results of looking up a bogus name: status = -11, errno = 110 > ======================== > > This is an almost-sid box with libc6 2.17-5. The results are consistent > with my earlier observations. > > My system above has [...]: > > hosts: files gw_name dns > [...] So maybe mdns is to blame here for part of the trouble? Can you > verify that really the last mdns4 entry makes up for the difference? > Just checked on Debian 7.0 with libc6 upgraded to version 2.17-7 from sid. Behavior is exactly the same as yours, quoted above, except with "status = -2" where you have "status = -11". Same behavior with "hosts: dns" and "hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns". -- Thomas
