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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 17:23:23
Message-Id: 200905311921.55032.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working by Timur Aydin
1 On Saturday 30 May 2009 23:59:46 Timur Aydin wrote:
2 > Graham Murray wrote:
3 > > Timur Aydin <ta@××××××.org> writes:
4 > >> Hi,
5 > >>
6 > >> I have synced my ~x86 system yesterday and after it completed, the
7 > >> resolver doesn't work for some programs anymore. For example, ping
8 > >> <hostname> says "unknown host name". It doesn't even contact the dns
9 > >> server, which is running on the same host. But dig <hostname> works
10 > >> fine. Also, using the IP address directly, I can access the internet.
11 > >>
12 > >> I am suspecting that the new glibc 2.10 is causing this. Anybody else
13 > >> having this issue?
14 > >
15 > > I had this issue a couple of weeks ago. I think it was the upgrade to
16 > > net-dns/openresolv-3.3.2 which was responsible. The solution was to
17 > > edit etc/resolvconf.conf and uncomment the line
18 > > name_servers=127.0.0.1
19 >
20 > That's what I tried yesterday and it resolved the problem. So it seems
21 > the new resolver does not default to checking localhost as a dns server
22 > and needs to be explicitely told to do so...
23
24 Which is a sensible default choice - few machines these days run a local
25 resolver. A better default is whatever the DHCP server says the resolvers are.
26
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