Domains not resolving

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 03:30:51PM -0400, Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> 
>    My landlord has just switched form Teksavvy on DSL to Teksavvy on cable.
> 
>    The DSL modem, 2wire with built-in wireless, worked with no problems.
> 
>    He now has a cable modem plus a DLink DIR-815 wireless router.
> 
>    My laptop, running Mandriva 2010.1, connects with no problems.
> 
>    My desktop, running Mandriva 2010.2, connects but does not resolve URLs
>    (Firefox works fine; lynx does not). I can connect (ssh, smtp, POP3, etc.) if
>    I give a dotted quad IP address, but not with a URL.
> 
>    This is info from both machines:
> 
> $ iwconfig wlan0  ## laptop
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"MY HOME 1"
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: BC:F6:85:C0:A4:E1
>           Bit Rate=36 Mb/s   Tx-Power=27 dBm
>           Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality=64/70  Signal level=-46 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> $ iwconfig wlan0 ## desktop
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"MY HOME 1"  Nickname:"localhost.localdomain"
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: BC:F6:85:C0:A4:E1
>           Bit Rate=48 Mb/s   Tx-Power:20 dBm   Sensitivity=-121 dBm
>           RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:70/100  Signal level:-51 dBm  Noise level:-96 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> 
> 
>    Does anyone have any idea how to fix it?

Any chance you configured a proxy in the past that some programs are
using and others are not and now it is no longer reachable?

You might have an http_proxy environment or something like that.

Can the 'host' command resolv IPs?

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