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DNS Lib Underscore Bug Bites Everyone's Favorite Init Tool, Blanks Netflix (theregister.co.uk)
Reader OneHundredAndTen writes and shares a report: Systemd doing what it does best. From a report on The Register: A few Penguinistas spent a weekend working out why they can't get through to Netflix from their Linux machines, because when they tried, their DNS lookups failed. The issue emerged over the weekend, when Gentoo user Dennis Schridde submitted a bug report to the Systemd project. Essentially, he described a failure within systemd-resolve, a Systemd component that turns human-readable domain names into IP addresses for software, like web browsers, to connect to. The Systemd resolver couldn't look up Netflix's servers for Schridde's web browser, according to the report. In his detailed post, Schridde said he expected this to happen: ipv6_1-cxl0-c088.1.lhr004.ix.nflxvideo.net gets resolved to 37.77.187.142 or 2a00:86c0:5:5::142. When in reality, that wasn't happening, so Netflix couldn't be reached on his box. His speculation that libidn2, which adds internationalised domain names support to the resolver, was at fault turned out to be accurate. Rebuilding Systemd without that library cleared the problem.
Does anyone know if they've settled on a timeline for pulling all SSH into systemd as well?
fencepost
just a little off
"A Gentoo users ... recompiled a component... everything is working OK now".
How is this not working as designed?
People read headlines on Slashdot? I just look at comment numbers and pop in, I really think this crypto currency stuff is getting dangerous. We need more Net Neutrality, because it will fix the problem with congress leaving too many tweets for Kaspersky to hack the elections.. appy apps? O.o
What next? A kernel bug gets blamed on systemd because systemd uses the kernel?
Wait! Who uses who now? :-)
Sorry, I'm from the future, where there is no kernel, only systemd.
Fun facts, after subsuming the kernel, the last non-systemd user land utility remaining is Emacs. Lennart and his (remaining) crew started the battle to absorb Emacs in 2040, five years before his death, and it's still raging many years after that. There have been casualties on both sides. Lennart died in 2045 when the experimental "systemd-elisp" module controlling his cold, robotic heart turned out to contain sleeper code, rumored to have been committed to GitHub by a radical faction of the FSF. He was found dead at his keyboard late one evening by the hooker he had ordered from Amazon Premiere earlier that day. The police report says he had been watching Trump porn.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The problem is, Poettering doesn't subscribe to Netflix.
I'll bet because he couldn't get the sound to work.
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