Re: DNS resolution not working with RPM installation on Fedora-12 x86_64

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 11:50:17AM -0700, Bert Sutherland wrote:
> I recently completed a net install of Fedora 12 x86_64 and I noticed
> that all of the instances of nmap installed via RPM package were
> unable to perform DNS resolution.  I tested this with both 32-bit and
> 64-bit RPM installers for nmap 5.30BETA1 and neither were able to do
> DNS lookup.  I had no better luck with the nmap 5.21 64-bit installer
> either.  I don't know if this might have anything to do with the fact
> that this was on a laptop using a wireless connection; probably not,
> but maybee....
>
> However, DSN resolution worked in all cases where I downloaded and
> compiled the .tar.bz2 source.  Please see the console session below
> for further detail.

Please check out this thread. We got a report of DNS not working on
Fedora until the nscd service was started. It's caused by some
incompatibility between the system that builds the RPMs and the host
that runs them, but it's not solved yet.

DNS broken in 5.21
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q1/308
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q1/319
http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2010/q1/344

David Fifield
_______________________________________________
Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list
http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/