[Centos] Segmentation Fault when using dig, nslookup, host...

Wed Apr 28 08:01:10 UTC 2004
Tom DE BLENDE (GCC) <Tom.DeBlende at dhl.com>

Lance Davis wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Tom DE BLENDE (GCC) wrote:
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>>I have setup Centos-3.1 on a Dell Optiplex GX1 this week. It has to 
>>replace an old Compaq Deskpro I used as a firewall/router running the no 
>>longer supported RedHat 7.1. I have the NAT firewall up and running, and 
>>it works OK.
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>>However, there is one thing bugging me. I cannot use any client software 
>>that queries a nameserver. I tried to use "dig", "host" and "nslookup", 
>>and they all segfault on me. As all these applications suffer from the 
>>same problem, I think it has to be a general problem. Name resolution 
>>itself works correct, and other than this I cannot find any real 
>>indications of problems.
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>>On the console I get this message:
>>"request_module[net-pf-10]: fork failed errno 1"
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>Is this with the standard CentOS kernel ???
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>Because it looks suspicously like the symptom of a non-nptl kernel being 
>used ...
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No, it is not. It's a 2.4.26... Sorry I forgot to mention that.

Thanks,
Tom