I'm reposting this question with answers to questions from Alex Samad organized better. This problem appeared after an update of Squeeze on February 7 or 8.
Joule is a router with network access by a dhcp configured link. dnsmasq and resolvconf worked for months with no problem. Now the machine doesn't resolve its own name. Other names inside and outside the LAN are still resolved. pe...@joule:~$ cat /etc/hostname joule pe...@joule:~$ host joule Host joule not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) pe...@joule:~$ host joule.invalid Host joule.invalid not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) pe...@joule:~$ host dalton dalton has address 142.103.107.137 This is the last message to the console at startup. apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName Also I wonder whether a problem with qpopper derives from this name-address problem. Results are the same with kernels 2.6.30-2-686 and 2.6.32-trunk-686. Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:04:53 +1100, Alex Samad wrote, as> I presume you are on joule and it has dnsmasq + resolvconf installed on it. Yes. as> can you as> cat /etc/resolv.conf* pe...@joule:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf* # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8) # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN nameserver 127.0.0.1 search pi.shawcable.net as> kill -SIGUSR1 $(pidof dnsmasq) ; tail -n 40 /var/log/syslog | grep dnsmas | tail -n 4 joule:/home/peter# kill -SIGUSR1 $(pidof dnsmasq) ; tail -n 40 /var/log/syslog | grep dnsmas | tail -n 4 Feb 20 16:01:31 joule dnsmasq[2070]: queries forwarded 29, queries answered loca lly 24 Feb 20 16:01:31 joule dnsmasq[2070]: server 64.59.160.13#53: queries sent 12, re tried or failed 0 Feb 20 16:01:31 joule dnsmasq[2070]: server 64.59.160.15#53: queries sent 26, re tried or failed 0 Feb 20 16:01:31 joule dnsmasq[2070]: server 64.59.144.19#53: queries sent 15, re tried or failed 0 as> and maybe cat dnsmasq.conf Visible here. http://carnot.yi.org/joule.dnsmasq.conf It's the installed default with a few comment lines added. Any further ideas? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Google "pathology workshop" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171056404.70261.629...@heaviside.invalid