Erratic DNS failures in Rawhide

[MartinG]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Thomas Janssen<thomasj at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 2009/7/2 Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>:
>> When I updated from F-11 to Rawhide, I started having serious and severe
>> DNS failures. Enabling the nscd service seems to temporarily resolve
>> these issues, but eventually nscd seems to die and DNS stops working.
>>
>> Some applications (e.g. chromium) don't seem to be suffering this fate,
>> while others (e.g. firefox, thunderbird, yum) do.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that glibc is to blame here, but I'm not even sure how
>> to appropriately file this bug. Is anyone else seeing this?
>
> Almost the same symptoms here with a broken nss-mdns package from
> updates-testing in F10-x86_64 (0.10-6).
> Can't sadly reproduce it in rawhide right now, since i was able to
> break it somehow :)

Bug 504951 - ping does nslookup, nslookup works, wget fails with error
in temporary name resolution.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504951

Bug 509357 - nss-mdns from updates-testing breaks local name resolution
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509357