From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MAokl-00021w-7p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 31 May 2009 17:23:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 103B4E02B6; Sun, 31 May 2009 17:23:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C956CE02B6 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 17:23:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so6666458ewy.34 for ; Sun, 31 May 2009 10:23:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=5yKQwkTXjmeQOLIlTIDTM48dp0oludfcuMm8FWLrP2c=; b=e0avbzqhp8lLXrHSefqvQpm1qwgZfG0BlVLem7RwZLYuDwf6S88SNQ2+go7FUNR2aq fDHXrI7YfurCYYUJGFAHbZgXNaX2K7qBvQHaSxqJWaBz7KSIIo9KpLHxiykJnTzWLGwb yQqOey0Hj0yfPnOWPFhofq7K/un+IlUbDGAzY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=UrlfRhsz6fcYCgb4xPOYTJ7AlRvo10V+2MsZHIcYczVo+rjsrKcoi4o8dMbvj7LE5K qABIuJbRTzQHW10gxDCKsxqyD6Aub2muszQdTGo2Juvkfa8T6Ob3ldj/VgnD4Mv0zDuT wgvmSlaX+BeB8L6KzxCjCZdisAySA8R/or4VY= Received: by 10.210.41.1 with SMTP id o1mr2946695ebo.63.1243790601304; Sun, 31 May 2009 10:23:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm6144935eyg.54.2009.05.31.10.23.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 31 May 2009 10:23:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 19:21:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.3 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.2.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4A1EE1C6.7030807@taydin.org> <87fxenw60t.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <4A21AC52.1020807@taydin.org> In-Reply-To: <4A21AC52.1020807@taydin.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905311921.55032.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a8971322-e6d1-4acf-9cd0-7186b7b66c1d X-Archives-Hash: 88972d762f91d4b8ce97890e491db4bf On Saturday 30 May 2009 23:59:46 Timur Aydin wrote: > Graham Murray wrote: > > Timur Aydin writes: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have synced my ~x86 system yesterday and after it completed, the > >> resolver doesn't work for some programs anymore. For example, ping > >> says "unknown host name". It doesn't even contact the dns > >> server, which is running on the same host. But dig works > >> fine. Also, using the IP address directly, I can access the internet. > >> > >> I am suspecting that the new glibc 2.10 is causing this. Anybody else > >> having this issue? > > > > I had this issue a couple of weeks ago. I think it was the upgrade to > > net-dns/openresolv-3.3.2 which was responsible. The solution was to > > edit etc/resolvconf.conf and uncomment the line > > name_servers=127.0.0.1 > > That's what I tried yesterday and it resolved the problem. So it seems > the new resolver does not default to checking localhost as a dns server > and needs to be explicitely told to do so... Which is a sensible default choice - few machines these days run a local resolver. A better default is whatever the DHCP server says the resolvers are. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com