Re: [linux] Tips on debugging nsswitch

2020-04-08 Thread Rick Leir
Alex Have a look at sssd. It is relatively recent ( speaking as a greybeard). It probably could use some maintenance help from someone who cares, since I suspect all the good linux developers have found other more popular projects to work on. Please correct anything I said above. Cheers -- Rick

Re: [linux] Tips on debugging nsswitch

2020-04-08 Thread Alex Pilon
On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 06:36:33AM -0400, Rick Leir wrote: > What do you have in /etc/nsswitch.conf ? I *had* exactly this: hosts: files mymachines myhostname mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns Had, the problem has fixed itself with a reboot which sounds to me to be total nonsense: -

Re: [linux] Tips on debugging nsswitch

2020-04-08 Thread Rick Leir
Alex, What do you have in /etc/nsswitch.conf ? Cheers -- Rick On April 6, 2020 3:07:33 PM EDT, Alex Pilon wrote: >Good aft, > >Does anyone have tips for how to debug nsswitch, short of going into >the >source, rebuilding with -O0 -g, and attaching a gdb? > >My dad's laptop is supposed to

[linux] Tips on debugging nsswitch

2020-04-07 Thread Alex Pilon
Good aft, Does anyone have tips for how to debug nsswitch, short of going into the source, rebuilding with -O0 -g, and attaching a gdb? My dad's laptop is supposed to mDNS-resolve a printer, but when I strace -e trace=network getent hosts $thePrinter.local, it doesn't even try to connect to the