On 28/05/2019 05.17, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Tue, 2019-05-28 at 03:03 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 28/05/2019 02.01, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 23:52 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 27/05/2019 20.42, Mark Misulich wrote:
On Mon, 2019-05-27 at 19:52 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 27/05/2019 18.36, Mark Misulich wrote:
~> ping www.google.com ping: www.google.com: Name or service not known
Problem.
~> egrep -v "^[[:space:]]*$|^#" /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 192.168.1.1
Ah.
The problem seems to be that you told your machine that the router does name solving, but it doesn't.
You could do
host -v www.google.com 192.168.1.1 host -v www.google.com 8.8.8.8
The first one should fail, the second one succeed. ~> host -v www.google.com 192.168.1.1 Trying "www.google.com" Using domain server: Name: 192.168.1.1 Address: 192.168.1.1#53 Aliases:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 15664 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.google.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION: www.google.com. 171 IN A 172.217.8.196
Received 48 bytes from 192.168.1.1#53 in 41 ms Trying "www.google.com" ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 46875 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.google.com. IN AAAA
;; ANSWER SECTION: www.google.com. 171 IN AAAA 2607:f8b0:4009:805::2004
Received 60 bytes from 192.168.1.1#53 in 28 ms Trying "www.google.com" ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45637 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.google.com. IN MX
;; AUTHORITY SECTION: google.com. 36 IN SOA ns1.google.com. dns- admin.google.com. 250191621 900 900 1800 60
Received 82 bytes from 192.168.1.1#53 in 198 ms
Well, now this is very peculiar, your router *does* DNS queries ...
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 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) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)