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

[Mathias Gug]

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).
 
> 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?

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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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