wget and portage fails with domainname <solved>

shanenin · Last edited by shanenin on Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:22 pm; edited 1 time in total

I am writing this question to help a friend with his gentoo systems. i think I have all of the correct information. One day portage quit working on both of his gentoo systems, which are on two seperate computers. It seems the faliure happens when portage trys to download a file, it fails at resolving the host. Wget also fails when using a hostname. He is able to use wget and portage if he uses an ip address(not a hostname) in his make.conf or when using wget with an ip address(not hostname). He is able to surf the web with both links and firefox. He is also able to download programs using links and firefox. If it matters he is using quest DSL. What would cause this sudden lack of being able to use domainnames?

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he said he is able to ping a domainname
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grunthus · Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 12:05 am Post subject:

My first thought would be to look in /etc/resolv.conf and check for a line like

shanenin · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:23 pm Post subject:

It must have been a problem with his dsl provider. One day it just started to work again.
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