name to ip resolution is not working .. Very Strange
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name to ip resolution is not working .. Very Strange
Hi All,
I am using debian and net is connected to this debian system and it is shared. I have a user account in this machine, which i use for my daytoday works. But today when i login as user i am not able to browse internet using firefox or any other browser (elinks also). But the hosts (net is shared from this system) are getting internet without any problem. I checked my resolv.conf .. it is fine. I flushed all my iptables including nat. The condition is the same.
This is the output after turning of firewall,
host google.com
google.com has address 72.14.207.99
google.com has address 64.233.167.99
google.com has address 64.233.187.99
ping google.com
ping: unknown host google.com
ping 72.14.207.99
PING 72.14.207.99 (72.14.207.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=235 time=335 ms
64 bytes from 72.14.207.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=235 time=333 ms
elinks google.com
Host not found
elinks 72.14.207.99
Google home page.
I gave google as an example. This is the problem for all web addresses. name to ip resolution is not taking place when we use a browser.
Could you please help me to solve this strange problem.
Seems like your DNS settings are not correctly configured on the machine. Have a look at the nameservers used by the host PC and see if it's the same on the debian box.
Might also be helpful to use ethereal to see where the debian box is trying to send DNS requests. Maybe you could post the ethereal output of a simple ping from both the debian box and a host PC so we can see where packets are trying to be sent on each PC?
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