Bug#539784: address lookup errors only in gnome-terminal

[Mark Hedges]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.26.2-2
Severity: important


Apologies if this is not the source of this bug but it's
the only place I see it.  This doesn't make a lot of sense.
I first encountered this problem on a buggy wireless at a cafe.
Now I'm having it at home.

I can't explain this:

^Chedges at maggie:~/Desktop$ ping scriptdolphin.com
PING scriptdolphin.com (64.22.103.163) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from li16-163.members.linode.com (64.22.103.163): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=81.9 ms
^C
--- scriptdolphin.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 81.903/81.903/81.903/0.000 ms
hedges at maggie:~/Desktop$ scp tuffytest.odt scriptdolpin.com:/tmp
ssh: Could not resolve hostname scriptdolpin.com: Name or service not known
lost connection
hedges at maggie:~/Desktop$ scp tuffytest.odt scriptdolpin.com:/tmp
^Chedges at maggie:~/Desktop$ scp tuffytest.odt 64.22.103.163:/tmp
tuffytest.odt                                                     100%   11KB  10.6KB/s   00:00    
hedges at maggie:~/Desktop$ nslookup scriptdolphin.com
Server:     68.87.76.182
Address:    68.87.76.182#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   scriptdolphin.com
Address: 64.22.103.163

I can call up the hostname in iceweasel just fine.

Now I can get it again in the command line, too, and everything seems 
fine again.  Great.

Mark


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-maggie-9 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data          2.26.2-2    Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                  1.26.0-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                        2.9-12      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.80-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                  2.26.2-1    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.20.1-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.16.1-2    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                      2:1.0.5-1   X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.24.0-3+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                       2:1.1.0-2   X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0     0.10-1      library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                      1:0.20.5-1  Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.2.2-1   X11 client-side library

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                          1.2.2-2    userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  yelp                          2.26.0-2   Help browser for GNOME

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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