nis + dnslookup => glibc crash

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Tue Nov 25 19:53:05 UTC 2008


> I haven't dug very deep but I am getting crashes in all applications that
> do dns
> lookups while ypbind is running. The backtraces point the crash somewhere
> in glibc.
> This happens when hosts in nsswitch is set to look at nis before looking
> up dns
> "hosts:      files nis dns".
>
> If I reorder the line to look up dns before nis them it works fine as nis
> is
> never accessed. Also shutting down ypbind also makes the crashes stop.
>
> I can get more info tomorrow morning (GMT). (Unfortunately I can't log
> into that
> machine from home now as I screwed something up)

Is your machine that's running ypserv set to provide host information?

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