[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#375419: libnss-mdns: the recommended /etc/nsswitch.conf breaks whois service

[Norman Ramsey]

 > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:49:33PM -0400, Norman Ramsey wrote:
 > > Package: libnss-mdns
 > > Version: 0.7-1
 > > Severity: normal
 > > 
 > > With the following (recommended) line in nsswitch.conf, whois service
 > > does not work:
 > > 
 > >   hosts:          files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
 > > 
 > > Example transcript
 > > 
 > >   : nr at toller 10785 ; whois alicent.com
 > >   getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
 > > 
 > > Changing to 
 > > 
 > >   hosts: files nds
 > > 
 > > allows whois to work again.
 > 
 > Do you still have this issue with nss-mdns 0.8 ?

No; it is fixed.


Norman