Alex,
What do you have in /etc/nsswitch.conf ?
Cheers -- Rick
On April 6, 2020 3:07:33 PM EDT, Alex Pilon <alp [ at ] alexpilon [ dot ] ca> wrote:
>Good aft,
>
>Does anyone have tips for how to debug nsswitch, short of going into
>the
>source, rebuilding with -O0 -g, and attaching a gdb?
>
>My dad's laptop is supposed to mDNS-resolve a printer, but when I
>strace
>-e trace=network getent hosts $thePrinter.local, it doesn't even try to
>connect to the Avahi socket.
>
>What I expect.
>
> $ strace -e trace=network getent hosts something.local
> […]
> socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 3
>connect(3, {sa_family=AF_UNIX,
>sun_path="/var/run/avahi-daemon/socket"}, 110) = 0
> 192.168.1.3 something.local
>
>For some reason, it consults the router's DNS server and quits.
>
>Regards,
>
>Alex Pilon
>
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