Re: resolv binary (partman-nbd) broken

2014-02-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 09:46:08PM +0300, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Wouter Verhelst (2014-02-21): > > It seemed to work when I originally wrote it; but today, I noticed this: > > > > wouter@carillon:~/debian/debian-installer/packages/partman-nbd$ ./resolv > > db.debian.org > > pÐ@ > > 82.195.75.1

Re: resolv binary (partman-nbd) broken

2014-02-24 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Wouter Verhelst (2014-02-21): > It seemed to work when I originally wrote it; but today, I noticed this: > > wouter@carillon:~/debian/debian-installer/packages/partman-nbd$ ./resolv > db.debian.org > pÐ@ > 82.195.75.106 > > The first is supposed to be an IPv6 address; instead, it is junk. > >

resolv binary (partman-nbd) broken

2014-02-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, When installing / to NBD, partman-nbd needs to set up some boot-time parameters so the NBD server can be found by the initrd. Unfortunately, since the initrd does not have a working resolver configured, that means we need to resolve DNS names to IP addresses in the installer. For that reason,