[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#473983: Bug#473983: libnss-mdns: dns for a QT-application broken

[Loïc Minier]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008, Mathias Behrle wrote:
> I have here an application built on QT 3.3.8, that couldn't find the database 
> server any more with error:
> QPSQL: Cannot connect to database
> could not translate hostname "postgres" to address: Name or service not known
> 
> The application runs on a workstation, the database runs on the server, that is 
> also doing DNS lookups and caching for the local network (dnsmasq). 
> 
> Trying to search for the reason there were two posssibilities:
> 1) I am running testing, so it could be the upgrade of a package
> 2) I installed in this period tomcat5.5 and sun-java5-bin, which pulls 
> in avahi-daemon and libnss-mdns

 Are you running 32-bits java from an amd64 install?  Try installing
 lib32nss-mdns.

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Loïc Minier