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2017 May 12
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Hostname resolve fails after upgrade from 4.2 to 4.5
...libnss_wins.so in /lib and you need "wins" in the "hosts" line in
/etc/nsswitch.conf.
I found this description in the wiki, which tries to explain how this
works (pretty much what I've written):
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php?title=Mounting_samba_shares_from_a_unix_client#NetBios_name_resolution_with_WINS
Again, ping is independent, but depends on glibc. Glibc, in turn, when
doing "getaddrinfo", doesn't just send DNS packets. Instead, it looks at
the "hosts" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf (see man nsswitch.conf). For each
entry "foo" there it loads a shared library /li...