2014-07-26 19:02 GMT+03:00 Alan McKinnon <[email protected]>: > > On 26/07/2014 17:23, Grand Duet wrote: > > 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 <http://gmail.com> > > gives: > > ;; connection timed out no servers could be reached > > > > Nevertheless > > dig @8.8.8.8 <http://8.8.8.8> gmail.com <http://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. :( > > what is the contents of /etc/resolve.conf?
# Generated by net-scripts for interface lo domain mynetwork That is all. I tried to add here lines like: nameserver 8.8.8.8 but found out that this file is rewritten on every reboot. My net try was to create /etc/resolv.conf.tail file and put that line there but that did not help either.
