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

[cwsupport]

Mathias Gug wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 08:24:46AM -0000, cwsupport wrote:
>   
>> Resolv.conf did have two lines with nameserver entries for the two
>> entries that were moved to Bind9.
>>
>>     
>
> I can't reproduce this. Using a standard karmic system, installing the
> bind9 package does *not* delete any lines in /etc/resolv.conf. It
> doesn't even use the entries in /etc/resolv.conf to setup forwarders (ie
> the default bind9 configuration isn't a local cache).
>   
I never said the installer did this. I moved the lines from resolv.conf
to the forwarders section.
>  
>   
>> Before this is discounted though how come DIG still resolves (i.e.
>> automatically uses 127.0.0.1) yet PING (and other programs) don't?
>>     
>
> DIG bypasses the libc stack (and thus resolv.conf - the same way has
> host does) while ping uses the libc stack (and thus uses the information
> from resolv.conf).
>
>
> Is the resolvconf package installed on the system?
>   
Yes. Is this expected behaviour from dig? If so then I suspect the libc
stack has been fixed and no longer auto-resolves using 127.0.0.1 for DNS
services. In which case this can be closed as works for me.

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Installing bind9 with forwarders causes loss of hostname resolution.
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