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From: John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2022 18:25:06
Message-Id: m3bkyjuefa.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube by Rich Freeman
1 On Sun, 06 Mar 2022 12:03:15 -0500,
2 Rich Freeman wrote:
3 >
4 > On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 11:49 AM Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > On Sunday, 6 March 2022 16:34:21 GMT John Covici wrote:
7 > > > On Sun, 06 Mar 2022 09:23:58 -0500,
8 > > >
9 > > > Rich Freeman wrote:
10 > > > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 9:01 AM John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
11 > > > > > Traceroute does not work, either.
12 > > > >
13 > > > > Can you elaborate on what "does not work" means, both for traceroute and
14 > > > > ping?
15 > > > >
16 > > > > This is sounding like a name resolution issue. Dig will directly
17 > > > > query the name server you point it at. Traceroute or ping will use
18 > > > > the C resolver.
19 > > > >
20 > > > > Places this could go wrong include:
21 > > > > /etc/hosts
22 > > > > /etc/host.conf
23 > > > > /etc/nsswitch.conf
24 > > > > /etc/resolv.conf
25 > > > >
26 > > > > (And that is just off the top of my head.)
27 > > >
28 > > > ping www.youtube.com
29 > > > ping: www.youtube.com: Name or service not known
30 > > >
31 > > > Same exact result for traceroute .
32 > > > Here is my /etc/resolv.conf
33 > > > nameserver 127.0.0.1
34 > > > nameserver 198.7.0.5
35 > >
36 > > Did you try to compare 'dig +trace' output for the two different URLs with and
37 > > without @8.8.8.8 as the DN resolver, to see how the responses to your local
38 > > setup differ?
39 >
40 > Specifically, run the dig @127.0.0.1 and @198.7.0.5 and compare that
41 > with @8.8.8.8. If some of those fail then there is a DNS server
42 > problem of some sort. If they're all consistent, I'd check nsswitch
43 > and the other files to ensure DNS is even being used.
44
45 Well, what is strange is that 127.0.0.1 works fine, but 198.7.0.5
46 does not .
47
48 Here is the output
49
50 dig +trace www.youtube.com @198.7.0.5
51
52 ; <<>> DiG 9.16.25 <<>> +trace www.youtube.com @198.7.0.5
53 ;; global options: +cmd
54 ;; Received 56 bytes from 198.7.0.5#53(198.7.0.5) in 20 ms
55
56 and that is all I get.
57
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63 John Covici wb2una
64 covici@××××××××××.com