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From: Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2022 16:49:35
Message-Id: 3655547.kQq0lBPeGt@lenovo.localdomain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] applications cannot access anything on youtube by John Covici
1 On Sunday, 6 March 2022 16:34:21 GMT John Covici wrote:
2 > On Sun, 06 Mar 2022 09:23:58 -0500,
3 >
4 > Rich Freeman wrote:
5 > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 9:01 AM John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
6 > > > Traceroute does not work, either.
7 > >
8 > > Can you elaborate on what "does not work" means, both for traceroute and
9 > > ping?
10 > >
11 > > This is sounding like a name resolution issue. Dig will directly
12 > > query the name server you point it at. Traceroute or ping will use
13 > > the C resolver.
14 > >
15 > > Places this could go wrong include:
16 > > /etc/hosts
17 > > /etc/host.conf
18 > > /etc/nsswitch.conf
19 > > /etc/resolv.conf
20 > >
21 > > (And that is just off the top of my head.)
22 >
23 > ping www.youtube.com
24 > ping: www.youtube.com: Name or service not known
25 >
26 > Same exact result for traceroute .
27 > Here is my /etc/resolv.conf
28 > nameserver 127.0.0.1
29 > nameserver 198.7.0.5
30
31 Did you try to compare 'dig +trace' output for the two different URLs with and
32 without @8.8.8.8 as the DN resolver, to see how the responses to your local
33 setup differ?

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