On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Tom DE BLENDE (GCC) wrote: > 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. > > 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. > > On the console I get this message: > "request_module[net-pf-10]: fork failed errno 1" Is this with the standard CentOS kernel ??? Because it looks suspicously like the symptom of a non-nptl kernel being used ... Regards Lance -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.