Hostname not found

caligari1977 · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 10 Location: France

Hi, I've got a weird problem : my internet connection is half-broken : everything works nearly ok, dialup, connection, ... all seems working good.
But when I try to look a webpage, retrieve pop-emails, it says "Hostname not found". So I looked the "ifconfig" and "route" output, and everything looked ok too...

Then I made some tests : as root, I can do anything I want, it works as usual, no "unknown host" messages.
As regular user, so far I use IP, it's ok too : I can retrieve my mails if I change the pop.blabla.com to the ip (which I got from a ping as root)

So I guess it's just a config problem. But where should I look???
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radulucian · Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2004 8:55 pm Post subject: weird solution for weird problem

couldn't quite say what the problem is but here is a possible solution (workaround), just as weird as the problem

you can emerge bind, and set it up as a caching DNS. then all your name resolution will be done locally so it should work for all users. default instalation may work.

while loged as root, you should
emerge bind

then test this workaround by starting it
/etc/init.d/named start

test some addresses from the non-root account and if it works you may want to add named to your startup with
rc-update add named default

hope it helps, if you eventually figure out what the problem was you can remove bind and also don't forget to post the solution here

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caligari1977 · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 10 Location: France

Well... I tried to install bind.
There is a change : now the "Unknown host" takes two second to appear instead of popping instantaneously :lol:

Maybe I'll try again towmorrow with deeper testing.
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Flolp · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 26

Check the permissions of your /etc/resolv.conf

I just tried to set it to rw-/---/--- and got unknown host, too. Running "chmod a+r /etc/resolv.conf" should do.

If your program can't read the address of the nameserver, it can't resolv.

caligari1977 · n00b Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 10 Location: France

Yes!!! That was it.

Thanks a lot!
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