A couple of rants about Launchpad#

[David Gerard]

2009/3/5 Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com>:
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 06:28:23PM +0000, David Gerard wrote:

>> Will the Avahi bug in 9.04 get nailed? That's the one that makes
>> Kubuntu such that Konqueror and ping can resolve DNS but Firefox and
>> (critically) apt-get can't. This question is apposite because Fedora
>> apparently went through the precise same problem six months ago.

> You sure that's Avahi? Sounds awfully like this bug I fixed a couple of
> weeks ago by pulling in a Fedora patch:
> glibc (2.9-0ubuntu12) jaunty; urgency=low
>  * debian/patches/all/fedora-nss_dns-gethostbyname4-disable.diff: Patch
>    from Fedora 2.9-3 to temporarily disable _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r,
>    which caused problems for systems with broken IPv6 connectivity
>    (LP: #313218, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459756).


Oooooh, could be! I was chatting to someone about this bug (why I was
still using 8.10 instead of 9.04, which otherwise appears quite usable
- as it should two months out) and he said it was avahi. So is it
fixed in current Kubuntu (not just Ubuntu) 9.04? I might give it
another go :-D


- d.