2014-07-26 9:23 GMT-06:00 Grand Duet <[email protected]>: > The first reboot after recent update of the system have > shown that I cannot open any webpage in Firefox. > > More exactly, Firefox or my system cannot any more resolve > URL to IP address (sorry if I use wrong terms). > > Thus, > host gmail.com > gives: > ;; connection timed out no servers could be reached > > Nevertheless > dig @8.8.8.8 gmail.com > reports the corresponding IP adresses. > > I have not changed any my network settings and my > /etc/conf.d/net file still contains list of my DNS servers > that contains server 8.8.8.8 as well but somehow it is > not enough any more. :( > > During my last system update, I suddenly found that > I had to update about 150 packages, what was a little > bit strange as I update my system at least once a week. > > I have attributed that to the remnants of gnome2 (now I am using > fxce4) that I have not cleaned completely and that is now going > to update. So, I deviated a bit from my usual system update routine > trying to fix that. Nevertheless, as to my view, during my system update > I did nothing to distroy the DNS lookup. > > Luckily, I save my system update logs and now can attach > the last one to this e-mail. > > Please, help me to recover my internet access, > as I still have to do a lot of real work till Monday > and have not enough time to investigate this problem > alone and without a proper internet access. :( > > >
You did verify your settings where correctly used to generate /etc/resolv.conf ? if not, append some known dns to that file this way: nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 verify connection to your gateway and internet with ping.
