Bug#549103: libwww-perl: DNS Resolver fails to respect /etc/resolv.conf

[John H. Robinson, IV]

Package: libwww-perl
Version: 5.813-1
Severity: normal

The DNS resolver in lwp-request is doing odd things:
lwp-request -m HEAD libraries         will bring up libraries.com
lwp-request -m HEAD http://libraries  will bring up libraries.ucsd.edu
  (I am in the uscd.edu domain)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libwww-perl depends on:
ii  libhtml-parser-perl      3.56-1+b1       A collection of modules that parse
ii  libhtml-tagset-perl      3.20-2          Data tables pertaining to HTML
ii  libhtml-tree-perl        3.23-1          represent and create HTML syntax t
ii  liburi-perl              1.35.dfsg.1-1   Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  netbase                  4.34            Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-perl 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

Versions of packages libwww-perl recommends:
ii  libcompress-zlib-perl         2.012-1    Perl module for creation and manip
ii  libhtml-format-perl           2.04-2     format HTML syntax trees into text
ii  libmailtools-perl             2.03-1     Manipulate email in perl programs

Versions of packages libwww-perl suggests:
pn  libio-socket-ssl-perl         <none>     (no description available)

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