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 87FBE1391DB for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:09:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84BF6E0EC2; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:09:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-f47.google.com (mail-la0-f47.google.com [209.85.215.47]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4A71DE0E76 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 16:09:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f47.google.com with SMTP id mc6so4004621lab.6 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:09:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=tHW0mfoSa5Dn150OzLdTu9BKUdmu459cErzvGE2SUak=; b=l90ibaH/CH+qcaHNbtTrvikDvLijxJOFS3EYSZU69Jv01LULugLz0Hzdj2pDr4Jew7 +ybBvE2nV+iA7ZvmriJ83OX9XZGDvfeEXFWUDtzdT5yJxGKjXdJShO1UHjKF4PqT81F+ gKanmx2fivncVKbwguMpW6eP5uwTTk7uQ/zu9a4MIBM+VoFUcXy2gAiUY+M8fPRTZ26f +PEp83nR3bWEq2yrEQclGUXcHcRDgUai30I8qvVsfpcgb/IpB/zkz4MludhszZHJwOYp pakGLmzf9fGuWMUI18g67t/RSkTAlHkTEjLXG0jW1q37fHxbtGm2kEsfkDgcrE0AEKVW 0ZlQ== 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 X-Received: by 10.112.84.75 with SMTP id w11mr4380126lby.24.1406390956605; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.135.229 with HTTP; Sat, 26 Jul 2014 09:09:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:09:16 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Something went wrong with DNS, plz help! From: =?UTF-8?Q?Jc_Garc=C3=ADa?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 72972b6b-7346-4ee0-8b79-d16edcb2dbf2 X-Archives-Hash: 7325fec87aa453e1670c0d51b7689d91 2014-07-26 9:23 GMT-06:00 Grand Duet : > 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 ? if not, append some known dns to that file this way: nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 verify connection to your gateway and internet with ping.