WINS - name resolution error

From	Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	WINS - name resolution error
Date	2016-11-09 20:00 +0100
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Hi,
starting from 2016-11-07 whit the daily upgrade (detail attached) I
spot these errors:

~$ ping google.com
ping: debian.com: Errore di sistema # literally "System error"

and, in the attempt to download email:

mpop: cannot locate host pop.*.com: File o directory non esistente #
file or directory not found


These errors seems to be related to wins, a workaround I found is to
remove or move back "wins" in /etc/nsswitch.conf, form:

hosts:          files wins dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=continue] mdns4

to

hosts:          files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=continue] wins mdns4

I have tired, without success, to edit STATUS>ACTION field as follow:

hosts:          files wins [UNAVAIL=continue] dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=continue] mdns4


I would open a bug report but cannot figure out who is the culprit, it must be among the upgraded
packages, among these I suspect libwbclient0, I've done some tests
whit strace and ldd, but I'm not sure. 

Regards

-- 
Felipe Salvador

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WINS - name resolution error Felipe Salvador <felipe.salvador@gmail.com> - 2016-11-09 20:00 +0100
  Re: WINS - name resolution error Alexandre GRIVEAUX <agriveaux@deutnet.info> - 2016-11-10 15:40 +0100

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