Re: [gentoo-user] Something went wrong with DNS, plz help!

[Grand Duet <grand.duet@gmail.com>]

2014-07-26 19:09 GMT+03:00 Jc García <jyo.garcia@gmail.com>:
> 2014-07-26 9:23 GMT-06:00 Grand Duet <grand.duet@gmail.com>:
>> 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. :(
>>
>>
>>
>
> You did verify your settings where correctly used to generate
> /etc/resolv.conf ?

I guess, no.

> if not, append some known dns to that file this way:
> nameserver 8.8.8.8
> nameserver 8.8.4.4

This does not help as /etc/resolv.conf is overwritten on every reboot.
Creating /etc/resolv.conf.tail also did not help.

> verify connection to your gateway and internet with ping.

It is ok. I am writing from the same subnet.