From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9907D13877A for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 19:43:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F9C3E1036; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 19:43:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.7]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E12E1020 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 19:43:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XB7sW-000CQr-CO for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 19:43:36 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Something went wrong with DNS, plz help! Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 20:43:35 +0100 Message-ID: <2085095.1SX8G0RYVZ@wstn> Organization: at home User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.12.21-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <53D3F137.3040308@gmail.com> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01d-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 52ea04a7-d78a-427b-8dbc-38a432785229 X-Archives-Hash: 9551896c1564d0470a6ca8dcc7b70769 On Saturday 26 July 2014 22:16:53 Grand Duet wrote: > 2014-07-26 21:19 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon : > > On 26/07/2014 18:16, Grand Duet wrote: > >> 2014-07-26 19:02 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon : > >>> On 26/07/2014 17:23, Grand Duet wrote: > >>>> The first reboot after recent update of the system have > >>>> shown that I cannot open any webpage in Firefox. > >>>> > >>>> More exactly, Firefox or my system cannot any more resolve > >>>> URL to IP address (sorry if I use wrong terms). > >>>> > >>>> Thus, > >>>> > >>>> host gmail.com > >>>> > >>>> gives: > >>>> ;; connection timed out no servers could be reached > >>>> > >>>> Nevertheless > >>>> > >>>> dig @8.8.8.8 gmail.com > >>>> > >>>> reports the corresponding IP adresses. > >>>> > >>>> I have not changed any my network settings and my > >>>> /etc/conf.d/net file still contains list of my DNS servers > >>>> that contains server 8.8.8.8 as well but somehow it is > >>>> not enough any more. :( > >>>> > >>>> During my last system update, I suddenly found that > >>>> I had to update about 150 packages, what was a little > >>>> bit strange as I update my system at least once a week. > >>>> > >>>> I have attributed that to the remnants of gnome2 (now I am using > >>>> fxce4) that I have not cleaned completely and that is now going > >>>> to update. So, I deviated a bit from my usual system update routine > >>>> trying to fix that. Nevertheless, as to my view, during my system > >>>> update > >>>> I did nothing to distroy the DNS lookup. > >>>> > >>>> Luckily, I save my system update logs and now can attach > >>>> the last one to this e-mail. > >>>> > >>>> Please, help me to recover my internet access, > >>>> as I still have to do a lot of real work till Monday > >>>> and have not enough time to investigate this problem > >>>> alone and without a proper internet access. :( > >>> > >>> what is the contents of /etc/resolve.conf? > >>> > >> # Generated by net-scripts for interface lo > >> domain mynetwork That isn't right. It should say it's for interface eth0. At first I thought eth0 wasn't being brought up, but then you quoted replies from dig, so it must be. > >> That is all. > >> > >> I tried to add here lines like: > >> nameserver 8.8.8.8 > >> > >> but found out that this file is rewritten on every reboot. > >> > >> My net try was to create /etc/resolv.conf.tail file > >> and put that line there but that did not help either. > > > > Then the problem is obvious - you have no nameserver entries as you > > don't create any. The computer can't make them up by magic... > > But it did it just before the last update: it created DNS entries in > /etc/resolv.conf > from my /etc/conf.d/net file on every reboot. And now it "cannot do this > magic"? > > You need to create static nameserver entries because you use a static > > (i.e. no dhcp) configuration. Add them to /etc/resolvconf.conf > > It does not help as /etc/resolv.conf is overwritten on every reboot. > > > If it still gets removed across restarts > > Yes, it does. Do you still have netifrc installed? Maybe it got lost in all that updating work. Try emerging it again anyway. Do your 90-network-rules look like mine? $ cat /lib/udev/rules.d/90-network.rules # do not edit this file, it will be overwritten on update # /etc/udev/rules/90-network.rules: triggering network init-scripts # Activate our network if we can SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", RUN+="net.sh %k start" SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="remove", RUN+="net.sh %k stop" I'm clutching at straws here, and I hear others doing the same ;-( -- Regards Peter