Domains not resolving

Ben Walton bdwalton-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 25 20:44:13 UTC 2012


Hi Chris,

>> Use google's name servers 8.8.8.8 and 4.4.4.4 I think
>
>
>    I tried those (and 216.239.32.10) in /etc/resolv.conf, but it didn't
> help.

What is in resolv.conf on the desktop that doesn't work (before you
modified for testing)?

You said that firefox worked but lynx didn't...that means that firefox
was doing name lookups and was able to view URL's but lynx couldn't?
Were you perhaps getting cached pages in firefox?  (Try a private
browsing session to avoid this...)


>    URLs in .etc.hosts don't do anything, either.

/etc/hosts takes IP to name mappings, not URLs.  What were you adding
to the hosts file?

>    I just discovered the command resolveip, and it resolves the addresses
> just fine.

Do they indicate which DNS server they're using?

Thanks
-Ben
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