> > I believe this is not actually a problem in wget itself but in the > environment. I don't generally use wget directly, but I use yum, > which evidently does. Yum stopped working a week or so ago and my > attempt to debug leads to wget. > > The typical problem: > # wget http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/ > --13:08:51-- http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/ > => `index.html.1' > Resolving rpm.livna.org... failed: No such file or directory. > > If I replace rpm.livna.org with an ip address then things work. > For now I'm making yum work by adding the repositories I need to > /etc/hosts. Incidentally, strace shows that /etc/resolv.conf is > being read. But tcpdump shows that no dns queries are sent. > > My real question is what could cause this behavior. > If you also have some idea of what might have changed (probably > due to automatic updates - FC4) in the last few weeks to cause this > or for that matter, how to fix it, I'll be glad to hear about that > too.
Please report these Fedora specific errors in http://bugzilla.redhat.com I'll escalate them to this list if it is a real wget bug. Do you happen to have "nisplus" 2cwin the "host" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf ? You should remove that if you're not using nisplus. Karsten -- Karsten Hopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG 1024D/70ABD02C Fingerprint D2D4 3B6B 2DE4 464C A432 210A DFF8 A140 70AB D02C Red Hat Deutschland, Hauptstaetter Str.58 70178 Stuttgart, Tel.+49-711-96437-0, Fax +49-711-96437-111
