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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 16:34:31
Message-Id: m3ee3fujjm.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 09:23:58 -0500,
2 Rich Freeman wrote:
3 >
4 > On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 9:01 AM John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > Traceroute does not work, either.
7 > >
8 >
9 > Can you elaborate on what "does not work" means, both for traceroute and 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
24 ping www.youtube.com
25 ping: www.youtube.com: Name or service not known
26
27 Same exact result for traceroute .
28 Here is my /etc/resolv.conf
29 nameserver 127.0.0.1
30 nameserver 198.7.0.5
31
32
33 --
34 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
35 How do
36 you spend it?
37
38 John Covici wb2una
39 covici@××××××××××.com

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