[ale] Fedora 13 DNS weirdness

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Aug 9 14:03:22 EDT 2010


No. I'm only seeing Joe Knapka emails with ancient date.

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jim, are you referring to me? My system time shows 1:35PM Aug 9 as of this
> writing. I am using gmail  but our outbound email is sent through Cbeyond,
> could that be changing the time stamp?
> Thanks,
> GC
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Do you have a date/time issue? You emails are showing up 12 hours in the
>> past...
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Joe Knapka <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
>>
>>>  Thanks, Jim.  Since Slackware is pissing me off by not even recognizing
>>> my wifi card, I'm going back to F13 for a bit.
>>>
>>> Was there some obvious place I could have found out about the need to
>>> restart nscd when moving between networks? (And for the love of all that's
>>> holy, why doesn't the all-singing, all-dancing Network Manager just do that
>>> automatically?)  I googled my ass off without achieving any enlightenment.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 08/09/2010 09:39 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>>
>>> 'service nscd restart' is required when manually changing or resetting
>>> the name services supply. Once nscd is restarted on the new network, it
>>> should float happily between the two known networks seamlessly.
>>>
>>> if not: summit a bug as it should auto-update from a change in
>>> networkmanager _especially_ from the wireless portion.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Joe Knapka <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've already ditched F13 and am installing Slackware on my old Dell D600
>>>> laptop, but I wanted to find out if anyone can explain the following
>>>> totally psychotic behavior I experienced under F13:
>>>>
>>>> I set up the laptop's wifi connection on my home network using Network
>>>> Manager (gag,spit) and everything worked fine (?!?).
>>>>
>>>> I went to my SO's house, configured the wifi connection for her network,
>>>> and it connected with no problem.  I could ping the router and the
>>>> upstream gateway by IP or by name.  I could ping things out in the world
>>>> by name:
>>>>
>>>>   jk at jaklaptop:> ping google.com
>>>> <successful ping responses from an actual Google IP>
>>>>
>>>> However, other applications that I tried (FireFox, telnet, ssh) did this
>>>> (or in FF's case gave me the equivalent "I can't do that" page):
>>>>
>>>>   jk at jaklaptop:> telnet google.com 80
>>>>   Host google.com not found - Name or service unknown.
>>>>
>>>> Weirdly, dig and nslookup had no problem resolving google.com (or any
>>>> other name). But any app that I actually wanted to USE for any practical
>>>> purpose complained about name lookup errors, as in the telnet example
>>>> above.
>>>>
>>>> I checked everything in Network Manager and the two networks were
>>>> configured identically. I looked at /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/host.conf,
>>>> /etc/nsswitch.conf and everything looked totally OK -- the machine was
>>>> using the correct router and DNS server for my SO's network. I ran
>>>> tcpdump on UDP port 53 while doing a ping and a telnet, and I saw
>>>> successful DNS requests for google.com in both cases.... but telnet
>>>> still complained about "Name or service unknown". I thought maybe it was
>>>> something to do with SELinux, so I disabled that, but no joy.
>>>>
>>>> Then when I got home the laptop connected to my home network and
>>>> everything worked fine again.
>>>>
>>>> I am still at the "WTF?" stage and am not really progressing... hence
>>>> the switch to Slackware.  Any ideas what might have been happening here?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> -- JK
>>>>
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