[Bug 456224] [NEW] Installing bind9 with forwarders causes loss of hostname resolution.

Mathias Gug mathiaz at ubuntu.com
Tue Oct 20 16:47:10 BST 2009


On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:03:51AM -0000, cwsupport wrote:
> 
> After bind9 is installed hostname resolution no longer occurs on programs such as ping.

Uses the libc name resolution stack (configured via resolv.conf).

> However dig resolves successfully via the local server.

Talks directly to the dns server, by passing the libc (and thus
resolv.conf).

 
> /etc/resolv.conf is EMPTY.

This is probably your problem. If resolv.conf is empty, dns name
resolution won't work. Why is resolv.conf empty? Could you check if
resolv.conf was empty *before* bind9 was installed?

  status incomplete
  importance low

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Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer  http://www.ubuntu.com

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Installing bind9 with forwarders causes loss of hostname resolution.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/456224
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