http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549447 Summary: Able to ping, no DNS Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: RC 1 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.2 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: chusty@attglobal.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 SUSE/3.5.3-3.1 Firefox/3.5.3 1. able to ping 2. firefox does not work 3. no repositories available. 4. resolve.conf is blank 5. if in firefox <about:config> and set network.dns.disableIPv6 to true then firefox work. Then I set it back to false as default. 6. Now yast/network devices/network setting/Hostname-DNS and I add the DNS from the router then all is back to normal. 7. resolve.conf ### /etc/resolv.conf file autogenerated by netconfig! # # Before you change this file manually, consider to define the # static DNS configuration using the following variables in the 8. Remove the DNS from the Hostname-DNS field and firefox does not work and the resolve.conf files is blanc again. There is a similar problem under Bug 546213 but I think there are difference. I reported what looks like the same problem under opensuse 11.1 The solution there was perfect. Here are bug reported under 11.1 which I believe is the same. Bug 463015 - Able to ping unable to connect Bug 441947 - getaddrinfo() breaks when resolv.conf points at buggy nameservers Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.able to ping. firefox unable to connect 2.if I change to true <network.dns.disableIPv6> in firefox, it works. 3.If I add DNS servers to the network device everything work Under opensuse 11.1 the problem was resolved replacing glibc. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.