On Sun, 06 Mar 2022 09:23:58 -0500,
Rich Freeman wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2022 at 9:01 AM John Covici <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Traceroute does not work, either.
> >
>
> Can you elaborate on what "does not work" means, both for traceroute and ping?
>
> This is sounding like a name resolution issue. Dig will directly
> query the name server you point it at. Traceroute or ping will use
> the C resolver.
>
> Places this could go wrong include:
> /etc/hosts
> /etc/host.conf
> /etc/nsswitch.conf
> /etc/resolv.conf
>
> (And that is just off the top of my head.)
>
OK, I discovered that if I add 8.8.8.8 to my resolv.conf,
www.youtube.com becomes accessible. I would like not to have either
google or cloudflare in there, if I can avoid them -- they were
blocking some places I wanted to go to with a 521 error code. So, the
mystery deepens.
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici wb2una
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