[CentOS] Mail has quit working

[TE Dukes]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of TE Dukes
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 6:36 PM
> To: 'CentOS mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working
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> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: CentOS [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Gordon
> > Messmer
> > Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 6:23 PM
> > To: centos at centos.org
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mail has quit working
> >
> > On 08/29/2018 06:54 PM, TE Dukes wrote:
> > > Added back the IPV6 to /etc/hosts a couple days ago for grins and
giggles.
> > > No longer getting IPV6 errors in logwatch for bind. Everything
working.
> > >
> > > I think removing my ISP's nameservers from /etc/resolv.conf was the
fix.
> >
> >
> > I just caught up on the thread.  It looks like the core issue was never
> > actually resolved:  "getent hosts localhost" still doesn't return the
> > expected result, right?
> >
> >      $ getent hosts localhost
> >      ::1             localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6
> > localhost6.localdomain6
> 
> Its returning exactly as above
> 
> >      $ grep ^hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf
> >      hosts:      files dns myhostname
> >
> 
> Its returning: files dns
> 
> > If you're not getting the expected result from "getent", and if your
> > nsswitch.conf lists "files", then glibc is somehow broken.  "rpm -V
> > glibc" might tell you how, or it might not.  Could be that glibc can't
> > load /lib64/libnss_files.so.2.
> >
> 
> rpm -V returns nothing.
> 

My bad, rpm -V glibc returns nothing.