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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] DNS not working except as root
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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,

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