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