On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 11:45 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Carl Thorn wrote: > > I was curious to know what the differences in the way lynx and > > seamonkey/wget communicate with website servers. After several > > attempts and building beyond linux from scratch. I finally got X and > > fluxbox to work and I also have Seamonkey installed and it seems to > > work ok but it won't connect to urls but finds i.p. addressed with no > > problem. I have the same problem with wget. Urls won't load but I.P. > > addresses will. Lynx has no problem whatsoever with urls. Whats the > > difference? > > It sounds like a nameserver problem. Make sure /etc/resolv.conf is > right. You may also want to load the BIND utilities and try some name > lookups with dig or nslookup. It is curious that lynx works ok. They > may fall back to an internal nameserver, but I don't really know. > > -- Bruce It is definitely a nameserver thing. I have dhcpcd installed and it generates /etc/resolv.conf automatically but lists my dsl modem as the nameserver. When I manually entered the nameservers of my isp everything worked. So now I have to figure out how to reconfigure the hooks so I don't have to manually change the /etc/resolv.conf on every reboot.
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