Debian Bug report logs - #21072
libc6: only uses the first name server in /etc/resolv.conf

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: libc6: only uses the first name server in /etc/resolv.conf

Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:23:13 +1000

Package: libc6
Version: 2.0.7pre1-4

If the first name server in /etc/resolv.conf is unavailable, gethostbyname will
fail instead of search the other entries.

Also, the manpage of resolv.conf mentions that it currently only searches the
first 3 servers listed in resolv.conf, this is not enough, it should be
increased to 4 at least.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.0 (frozen)
Kernel Version: Linux gondor 2.0.32 #3 Wed Nov 26 16:55:07 EST 1997 i486 unknown

Versions of the packages libc6 depends on:
ldso	Version: 1.9.7-1

Message #8 received at 21072-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>

To: 21072-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Please confirm this bug.

Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 04:47:55 -0800

I'm not able to find a ChangeLog entry that would seem to apply to 
this, however, I did find this:

1998-09-11  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>

       * resolv/res_init.c (res_init): Handle resolv.conf file with only
       one nameserver correctly.  Patch by HJ Lu.

from this, I would assume the other case was working.
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<URL:mailto:jk@espy.org>                  <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org>
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