Daniel Bauer wrote:
Hello,
I have a very strange problem: suddenly I cannot reach the web using domain names from my laptop - and only from my laptop. I can reach any site using the IP-Number, but not with domain names. If I want to log into to the router-PC using ssh with the name, I get the message
Temporary failure in name resolution.
I can login with the IP-Number...
What I don't understand, is that I can use ssh and the web normally on the other computers via the same router-PC - it just doen't work anymore from my laptop. So the name server on the router fully works (I also tried there using the host command and w3m).
I havn't changed anything on the laptop. I just shutted it down (while anything worked normally), then started it again later and since then I have this problem.
I tried to find any useful info in the logs, but I cannot see anything (which doesn't mean there is no info - I probably just search the wrong files for the wrong words...).
Where can I look what happend and how can I find out where the problems are?
Thanks for your hints.
Daniel
some details:
Router: PC running SuSE 8.1 with named and firewall (nothing changed there since years, except root.hint from time to time)
Laptop: openSuse 10.3, connected per cable via switch to the router above
other PC's: openSuse 10.2, working normally Win98, working normally, too
all 3 PCs are connected to the router via the same switch.
Hi Daniel The first file I'd look at would be the /etc/resolv.conf file to see if it's pointing to the right DNS server. It's possible that you connected with a dynamic IP address that modifed the resolv.conf, then for some reaon it wasn't restored to the correct value on restoring. Can you check if that's OK, e.g. if that nameserver specified is the correct one? Cheers Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org