On 07 April 2007, Coder TuX wrote: > On 4/7/07, Tony Stohne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Coder TuX said the following on 2007-04-07 14:46: > > | resolv.conf is -rw-r--r-- so that's not the issue.. > > | > > | I noticed that ping works for about every ip i've tried, but TCP > > | connexions don't. why could that happen? I can browse my local > > | webserver however... > > > > I'm not entirely clear on this, so just for clarification: > > Have You just pinged IP addresses or IPs AND domain names as well? > > > > You pinged the address 216.239.37.99, but does it work when you ping the > > corresponding domain name, ie va-in-f99.google.com, or any other domain > > name? > > Pinging the IP address works, pinging the corresponding domain name > doesn't.
So it's definitely a DNS problem. Your resolv.conf looks right. The name server configured there is working (I checked it). H... Have you recently upgraded your firewall, if any, and blindly used etc-update with checking your firewall config? Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list