2014-07-26 19:13 GMT+03:00 Mick <[email protected]>: > On Saturday 26 Jul 2014 16:23:20 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 >> gives: >> ;; connection timed out no servers could be reached > > OK, what does 'cat /etc/resolve.conf' shows?
# Generated by f***ing net-scripts for interface lo domain mynetwork > It seems that you do not have a nameserver set up in your system? I have everything in /etc/conf.d/net: dns_servers_...="... ... 8.8.8.8" but currently nothing in /etc/resolv.conf >> Nevertheless >> dig @8.8.8.8 gmail.com >> reports the corresponding IP adresses. > > I'm guessing that 'dig gmail.com' doesn't come up with an answer? You are right. :) >> 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. :( > > Do you then define the nameservers statically? I think, yes. > Do you use dhcpcd, or something else? I assign IP for my Gentoo computer statically in /etc/conf.d/net: config_...="my.local.IP netmask ..." routes_...="default via my.local.router.IP" but I have not changed all this since last reboot when everything worked ok.

