wine users - Nov 2011 - problem with DNS in wine - need help

Hi I am new to wine and looking for help.

I run wine 1.3.28 over Ubuntu 11.10 (32 bit).

I installed Firfox 7.01 - no problem during the instalation process, and the
application loads fine.
But it seems that DNS does not function as I can't access any site by name
only by IP.

The linux version  of Firefox (one that runs from ubuntu) works fine.

help aappreciated.
M

mishab wrote:
> But it seems that DNS does not function as I can't access any site by
name only by IP.
Probably missing some libraries:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-702afb4d648cbaad02e1c8d58f64e5ef7cb47f6a

jjmckenzie wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:59 PM, mishab <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> If you do, it will have to be against your Linux distribution.  Or you
> could try building the 64 bit version of Wine.  Realize that it does
> have some shortcomings.
> 
> James

Hi James,

the actual problem is that my Linux distribution is 32 bit while the
lib32nss-mdns is only for 64 bit kernel architectures. in the 32 bit kernel it
is only called as libnss-mdns.
So I can open it against my Linux distribution as it seems that nothing is wrong
with it, it is wine that is suspected that needs explicitly lib32nss-mdns even
if run from 32 bit kernel.

 I do suspect that this is a problem in Wine, but I will try to change my kernel
to 64 bit and after that to try and run the 32 bit wine over it (the 64 bit
kernel version should have the lib32nss-mdns for the sake of 32 bit applications
like wine).

Any other suggestions are welcome.

thanks
Misha