Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working

[Timur Aydin <ta@taydin.org>]

Graham Murray wrote:
> Timur Aydin <ta@taydin.org> 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
>> <hostname> says "unknown host name". It doesn't even contact the dns
>> server, which is running on the same host. But dig <hostname> 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...

-- 
Timur