Hi all, I have a number machines sitting in another country with access to them via a VPN. On one of these machines "host www.google.com" returns valid IP addresses, but "wget www.google.com" results in
Resolving www.google.com... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution. However, using wget with the IP address does work. Attempting to access other servers results in similar behaviour. "host <server>" works, "wget <server>" doesn't, "wget <ip address>" does. In addition, the problem is not restricted to wget; telnet, ping, lynx etc are all broken, but host works. Anybody have any explanation for this weird behaviour? Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Am_Not_a_Christian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Am_Not_a_Muslim http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_atheism -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
