Summary: | GUI Installer produced machine that cannot resolve hostnames | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Kendric Beachey <kendric.beachey> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
Severity: | major | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2006.0 | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Kendric Beachey
2006-03-17 12:02:06 UTC
You didn't provide any relevant information whatsoever wrt your network setup. (In reply to comment #1) > You didn't provide any relevant information whatsoever wrt your network setup. Sorry for that. We're on a fairly standard company lan. My other gentoo machines were pretty much born knowing how to hit DNS servers to resolve hostnames. Maybe a little play-by-play would help: beachey@arthur ~ $ ping hesston ping: unknown host hesston beachey@arthur ~ $ ping hesston.garmin.com ping: unknown host hesston.garmin.com beachey@arthur ~ $ ssh hesston ssh: hesston: Temporary failure in name resolution beachey@arthur ~ $ ssh hesston.garmin.com ssh: hesston.garmin.com: Temporary failure in name resolution beachey@arthur ~ $ ping www.gentoo.org ping: unknown host www.gentoo.org beachey@arthur ~ $ Sigh... are you trying to say that DHCP doesn't work for you? Does /etc/resolv.conf exist? (In reply to comment #3) > Sigh... are you trying to say that DHCP doesn't work for you? Does > /etc/resolv.conf exist? Sorry to be so vague. This machine (and my others) uses a static IP address, although DHCP is offered on the lan. I have opted for static IP and a listing in DNS so I can have other people hit my machine for testing purposes. /etc/resolv.conf is identical to the ones on my working machines. Our network guru looked at it for a while and walked away stumped. He thought maybe there was some missing library or something. He's not a gentoo user, so he couldn't offer any gentoo-specific advice...he's all Debian and SuSE and Red Hat. |