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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Sync'ed my ~x86 system yesterday and now resolver stopped working
From:       Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-05-31 17:21:54
Message-ID: 200905311921.55032.alan.mckinnon () gmail ! com
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On Saturday 30 May 2009 23:59:46 Timur Aydin wrote:
> Graham Murray wrote:
> > Timur Aydin <ta@taydin.org> writes:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have synced my ~x86 system yesterday and after it completed, the
> >> resolver doesn't work for some programs anymore. For example, ping
> >> <hostname> says "unknown host name". It doesn't even contact the dns
> >> server, which is running on the same host. But dig <hostname> works
> >> fine. Also, using the IP address directly, I can access the internet.
> >>
> >> I am suspecting that the new glibc 2.10 is causing this. Anybody else
> >> having this issue?
> >
> > I had this issue a couple of weeks ago. I think it was the upgrade to
> > net-dns/openresolv-3.3.2 which was responsible. The solution was to
> > edit etc/resolvconf.conf and uncomment the line
> > name_servers=127.0.0.1
>
> That's what I tried yesterday and it resolved the problem. So it seems
> the new resolver does not default to checking localhost as a dns server
> and needs to be explicitely told to do so...

Which is a sensible default choice - few machines these days run a local 
resolver. A better default is whatever the DHCP server says the resolvers are. 

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com


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