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2014-07-26 21:19 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>: |
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> On 26/07/2014 18:16, Grand Duet wrote: |
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>> 2014-07-26 19:02 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>: |
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>>> |
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>>> On 26/07/2014 17:23, Grand Duet wrote: |
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>>>> The first reboot after recent update of the system have |
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>>>> shown that I cannot open any webpage in Firefox. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> More exactly, Firefox or my system cannot any more resolve |
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>>>> URL to IP address (sorry if I use wrong terms). |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Thus, |
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>>>> host gmail.com <http://gmail.com> |
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>>>> gives: |
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>>>> ;; connection timed out no servers could be reached |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Nevertheless |
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>>>> dig @8.8.8.8 <http://8.8.8.8> gmail.com <http://gmail.com> |
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>>>> reports the corresponding IP adresses. |
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>>>> I have not changed any my network settings and my |
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>>>> /etc/conf.d/net file still contains list of my DNS servers |
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>>>> that contains server 8.8.8.8 as well but somehow it is |
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>>>> not enough any more. :( |
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>>>> |
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>>>> During my last system update, I suddenly found that |
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>>>> I had to update about 150 packages, what was a little |
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>>>> bit strange as I update my system at least once a week. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> I have attributed that to the remnants of gnome2 (now I am using |
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>>>> fxce4) that I have not cleaned completely and that is now going |
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>>>> to update. So, I deviated a bit from my usual system update routine |
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>>>> trying to fix that. Nevertheless, as to my view, during my system update |
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>>>> I did nothing to distroy the DNS lookup. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Luckily, I save my system update logs and now can attach |
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>>>> the last one to this e-mail. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Please, help me to recover my internet access, |
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>>>> as I still have to do a lot of real work till Monday |
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>>>> and have not enough time to investigate this problem |
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>>>> alone and without a proper internet access. :( |
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>>> |
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>>> what is the contents of /etc/resolve.conf? |
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>> # Generated by net-scripts for interface lo |
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>> domain mynetwork |
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>> That is all. |
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>> I tried to add here lines like: |
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>> nameserver 8.8.8.8 |
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>> but found out that this file is rewritten on every reboot. |
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>> My net try was to create /etc/resolv.conf.tail file |
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>> and put that line there but that did not help either. |
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> Then the problem is obvious - you have no nameserver entries as you |
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> don't create any. The computer can't make them up by magic... |
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But it did it just before the last update: it created DNS entries in |
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/etc/resolv.conf |
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from my /etc/conf.d/net file on every reboot. And now it "cannot do this magic"? |
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> You need to create static nameserver entries because you use a static |
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> (i.e. no dhcp) configuration. Add them to /etc/resolvconf.conf |
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It does not help as /etc/resolv.conf is overwritten on every reboot. |
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> If it still gets removed across restarts |
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Yes, it does. |
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> then you have some local modification going on that does deletions |
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Yes, it does. |
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> you don't know about. You then have too find them and turn them |
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> into something you do know about. |
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??? |
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> Alan McKinnon |
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> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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