What kernel are you using? What programming language. I just tried it
on my box as a user and it worked fine:
>>> from socket import gethostbyname
>>> print gethostbyname("www.python.org")
194.109.137.226
In short, I don't think it's a "gentoo-thing, especially since it works
on your other gentoo box".
The man page for gethostbyname says:
TRY_AGAIN
A temporary error occurred on an authoritative name
server. Try again later.
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On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 17:01, conrausch wrote:
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> hello...
> I'm not 100% sure, if this is a gentoo-thing, but it does work on my
> linux-from-scratch computer. then again, it also works on my other
> gentoo-box, running the same kernel...
> anyways, i'd be more than happy, if someone could give me some advice.
> my no-ip-updater stopped working recently. i investigated, and came to the
> conclusion, that it doesnt work, because the gethostbyname()-function doesnt
> work for non-root users on my system. everything works fine as root, but if i
> am somebody else, it gives me a "TRY_AGAIN" error, meaning a temporary error
> occured on the name server.
> i am not a security-expert, but i honestly doubt it is supposed to be that
> way...
> can anyone comment on this? i would be grateful..
>
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