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From: Christer Ekholm <che@××××××.se>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Timur Aydin <ta@××××××.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 09:49:35
Message-Id: 864ov2gbu1.fsf@poke.chrekh.se
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working by Timur Aydin
1 Timur Aydin <ta@××××××.org> writes:
2
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > I have synced my ~x86 system yesterday and after it completed, the
6 > resolver doesn't work for some programs anymore. For example, ping
7 > <hostname> says "unknown host name". It doesn't even contact the dns
8 > server, which is running on the same host. But dig <hostname> works
9 > fine. Also, using the IP address directly, I can access the internet.
10 >
11 > I am suspecting that the new glibc 2.10 is causing this. Anybody else
12 > having this issue?
13
14 I experienced similar problem when I upgraded to glibc-2.10, but the
15 only thing I had to do was change from 'server' to 'nameserver' in
16 /etc/resolv.conf (as told by my 'man resolv.conf'). I don't know why I
17 had only 'server' before, perhaps that was allowed with earlier glibc.
18
19 --
20 Christer