On Wed, 2019-05-29 at 17:45 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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.
I've been thinking more of a overall view, that the issue is that the zypper dup didn't work. Something in the software is messed up, and we are at an impasse trying to fix it. I think that at this point the thing to do is start over. What I mean is to format the / and /home partitions and install from the iso to see if everything works afterwards. I downloaded the iso, and this morning have copied my data on /home so I can reload it afterwards. If I have the same problem after reinstalling the operating system, I won't be any worse off than I am now. But it will probably fix the problem, and I won't know till I try. I'll report back after I get it all done later today. Mark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org