F10 won't resolve hostnames

Ehtetur · 11-30-2008, 10:47 AM

Crap...!

Neither F10 32bit nor 64 bit would resolve a hostname... Firefox could open http://75.126.162.205/ but not http://linuxquestions.org...
I saw the same thing with pinging: If I pinged a hostname, it would resolve to its ip address but I got no pings or pongs...
Manually entering the DNS servers didn't fix anything...

Another weird thing is that I was able to receive upgrades after installing the 64 bit version.. However, I still had the hostname issue.

Anyone else run in to this or have a fix!?

- Ehtetur

Disillusionist · 11-30-2008, 11:00 AM

Do you get a result running:

Code:

nslookup linuxquestions.org

I have seen issues before where there is a clash between IPv4 and IPv6, in Firefox you can change settings by browsing to about:config

If you set the value of network.dns.disableIPv6 to true, you may find that this resolves the issue (assuming the nslookup worked)

Ehtetur · 11-30-2008, 11:23 AM

First of all, Disillusionist... Thank you, that fixed it!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Disillusionist

Do you get a result running:

Code:

nslookup linuxquestions.org

Yup, nslookup resolved it fine.... No n/w issues at the OS level...

Quote:

I have seen issues before where there is a clash between IPv4 and IPv6, in Firefox you can change settings by browsing to about:config

If you set the value of network.dns.disableIPv6 to true, you may find that this resolves the issue (assuming the nslookup worked)

I changed that, restarted ff, and Bang!!! all is peaches and gravy!
Thanks much!!!!!!!

-- Ehtetur

numberoneconti · 12-31-2009, 03:28 PM

helped me out big time!