> Specifically, strace showed stuff like "ping 1.2.3.4" causing UDP
> datagrams sent to the DNS port;
If ping uses gethostbyname this problem was corrected some time ago.
I'll make a description available as soon as the GNU machines are
working again reliable. Or you use the RedHat release based on glibc
which already contains the patch.
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