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 A72381391DB for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:03:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 389BBE0EAD; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:03:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f181.google.com (mail-we0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EFD9AE0EA6 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:03:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f181.google.com with SMTP id k48so5631295wev.12 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:03:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=f1vbecmaOvylpp3zTGMIG1GmdsWS8hOgpUuJy8/MPqA=; b=cbsyV86bLgXjxyET/8FjzmciJuD0eYBEefsCO/wA4PNjBptXoFzUqw9zPK+0Made9L ctKzS5t8SjySHPdvx950DZs3I4duafV7oR2grxGsLcIuUjuG3h80btHmMP96mOkxzlJ1 TeWo51HsXbq/vybHjM/aghPHSeKJap/P5znYEVgN54ICGLO6d91cLCrrubPu6bUnVwIW bM1qBcQ56H2+9dYeqGr+Gm4GmUEluGiyTrWh9i22dsjOwuwBobq5R4D62Aj/FI9yw6OF EzlddDV4HRKHqiRXnI4kj+7fbk6fUbTjaqt/twxcD94/FJS2VUyHt9XwvnK2k9u7TrQa vQ+g== X-Received: by 10.180.87.199 with SMTP id ba7mr14231404wib.49.1406390594858; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (105-237-170-243.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.170.243]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id gt3sm4485110wjc.4.2014.07.26.09.03.13 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:03:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <53D3D10E.2060205@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 18:02:22 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Something went wrong with DNS, plz help! References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9140e529-c9ad-46e6-8a0e-94de1b68eca0 X-Archives-Hash: a135bd6a12071a3add869c1a73766d23 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? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com