On 29/05/2019 15.02, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 12:01 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 28/05/2019 05.17, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 03:03 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Well, now this is very peculiar, your router *does* DNS queries
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Ok, next step. You said you have more computers. On one that it is working, if it is Linux, see what says /etc/resolv.conf, and perhaps copy it over... The actual name server it uses.
My desktop computer is opensuse. The /etc/resolv.conf file says nameserver 192.168.1.1
On my laptop, the /etc/resolv.conf file says nameserver 192.168.1.1
And it works for your laptop, but not for this machine. Weird.
At this point, I can not imagine why.
Let's see if someone has another idea. Ok, one:
Have a look at "/etc/hosts.conf", it should have:
order hosts, bind multi on
My file /etc/host.conf has
order hosts, bind multi on
So it is correct.
Or it might not exist. Then look at "/etc/nsswitch.conf". It should have:
hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns networks: files dns
(and more)
my /etc/nsswitch.conf has
hosts: files mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns networks: files dns
Same as me, in two installs. Must be correct.
...(and more)
Then I don't have more ideas. Try rebooting the router. The only remaining thing I can think off is to use ethereal aka wireshark to watch the connections while you do a simple "host google.com" query. Find out if the computer is asking or if the router does not reply or what. While you do this, better don't have anything else using the network or it can become very confusing. Well, there is another thing you could do: use your own DNS server in your machine. DNSmasq would do fine. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)