Re: Help! - DNS seg faults, can't ping non-numeric IPs

Matt Newsome wrote (Thursday 23 August 2001 16:30 +0100):
> > Also, grab 'strace' off the skiffclusters and try "strace ping
> > www.yahoo.com" - that should give more information about whats
> > happening.
> > (It will output a -lot- of information - shortly above where the
> > SIGSEGV is sent should be the error.)

Small addition: drawing on an earlier comment, my nsswitch.conf
contains:

  hosts: files dns

and if I change this to:

  hosts: files

I get an unknown host message as expected (and no segfault), though
obviously I still don't have DNS(!).

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Matt Newsome