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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 08:50:02PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote: |
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> Unfortunately you don't have enough doc anywhere for me to puzzle |
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> this out on my own. I can find no logs with errors related to this. |
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> A normal user is denied access to DNS requests, which means that you |
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> can only gain internet access with specific ip addresses. |
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> Where are the controls for permitting DNS requests? |
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> This is a repeat, but this should be really basic. |
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Well, DNS requests are normally done with the gethostbyname() or gethostbyname_r() |
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syscall; maybe you could write a simple test program or strace a basic program like |
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ping to get some idea of what permission issue is causing the problem? We have an |
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strace ebuild in the Portage tree. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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