Domains not resolving

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, 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.)

    Problem solved: permissions had changed on /etc/hosts and only root could
    read it.

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