Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Mark Pariente <markpariente@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected.
Date:	Sun, 04 Aug 2013 19:21:59
Message-Id:	`1375644107.20522.2.camel@siegeengine`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Browsers cannot access WWW while ping and host utilities work as expected. by gevisz

1	> More exactly, Internet browsers (I have tried Firefox and Links) can
2	> connect to the WWW if I type the IP address as,
3	> for example, 173.194.71.104 but cannot if I type www.google.com
4	>
5	> And this is strange because the host utility works as expected
6	> (converting www.google.com into 173.194.71.104) just adding the
7	> following "Warning: query response not set."
8
9	Do other command line tools like ping work? It looks like your DNS setup
10	is correct but for some reason the GNOME setup isn't. Few things:
11
12	- Are you using NetworkManager? Is the 'networkmanager' USE flag
13	enabled? If so try going to Settings->Network->Wired->gear icon->IPv4
14	and see what the DNS settings are like.
15
16	- Also in Settings->Network, see if Network proxy is (mis)configured.
17
18	--Mark