DNS not working in Fedora 14

Robert G. (Doc) Savage dsavage at peaknet.net
Sat Jan 1 14:08:02 UTC 2011


On Sat, 2011-01-01 at 13:59 +0000, Dick Holland wrote:
> I've installed F14 on a box that was running F8 (I know, I know...) and
> DNS is not working properly. 
> 
> nslookup and dig can both find google.com quite successfully, but any
> other method of trying to connect to remote site (http, telnet, ftp) all
> fail with the same error that they cannot resolve the name. I have
> disabled SElinux, the firewall, and the iptables and ip6tables services.
> 
> Whether I configure the ethernet connection with DHCP or a static IP
> address the results are the same, as they are if I'm using 64-bit or
> 32-bit F14. The results below are for a DHCP setup on 32-bit F14, which
> is really straight out of the box.
> 
[snip]
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Here's the result of a "telnet google.com 80":
> 
> telnet: google.com: Name or service not known
> google.com: Host name lookup failure
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I've trawled the forums and mailing list archives and I've searched
> Redhat bugzilla. I've seen references to 64-bit DNS problems in F10-F11,
> but nothing still open that I can find.
> 
> So I've concluded that I'm doing something stupid - or not doing
> something sensible and necessary. Can anyone tell me what that might be?

Dick,

What does your /etc/nsswitch.conf 'host:' line say?

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL



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