Hey list, I am working offline and couldn't help notice that my applications still try to resolve DNS hostnames.
There are no routes, no addresses of any kind, and all interfaces -- except lo -- are down. avahi-daemon is not running, and /etc/resolv.conf is empty. I noticed that /etc/nsswitch.conf includes mdns stuff, so I removed that (I certainly am not a friend of this kind of auto-configuration), and now it just says: "hosts: files dns". Yet, when I ping debian.org, tcpdump sees 2 (!) DNS A requests to 127.0.0.1:53. Where are the coming from? How can I tell that source to stop trying to be smart; if there were a DNS server on the loopback address, I'd have configured it in /etc/resolv.conf. But I did not, and I run Debian because I like to be in control of things. So what's going on, and how can I restore the norm? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <madd...@d.o> Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://vcs-pkg.org `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "i never go without my dinner. no one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that." -- oscar wilde
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