From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] DNS not working except as root
Date: Fri May 11 22:27:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010511222646.B20261@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010511205002.699bda35.erichey2@home.com>; from erichey2@home.com on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:50:02PM -0600
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:50:02PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> Unfortunately you don't have enough doc anywhere for me to puzzle
> this out on my own. I can find no logs with errors related to this.
>
> A normal user is denied access to DNS requests, which means that you
> can only gain internet access with specific ip addresses.
>
> Where are the controls for permitting DNS requests?
>
> This is a repeat, but this should be really basic.
Well, DNS requests are normally done with the gethostbyname() or gethostbyname_r()
syscall; maybe you could write a simple test program or strace a basic program like
ping to get some idea of what permission issue is causing the problem? We have an
strace ebuild in the Portage tree.
Best Regards,
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-12 4:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-11 20:42 [gentoo-dev] DNS not working except as root Collins Richey
2001-05-11 22:27 ` Daniel Robbins [this message]
2001-05-12 12:01 ` [gentoo-dev] su not working / email Sebastian Werner
2001-05-12 23:14 ` Justus Pendleton
2001-05-12 5:11 ` [gentoo-dev] DNS not working except as root Achim Gottinger
2001-05-12 8:43 ` Collins Richey
2001-05-12 9:02 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-05-12 9:30 ` Collins Richey
2001-05-12 5:49 ` Achim Gottinger
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