DNS resolution failure

[jaytco]

I have a gentoo linux box and was doing an emerge and it died part way through. After the failure I was not able to resolve any dns names? IP connectivity is fine. /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/resolv.conf are data filled and I can ping my dns servers (same servers I use on my windows box, and they work). I am guessing that my gethostbyname functions are not working??? The only way I have to verify is via ping. I do not have dig or nslookup.
Is there a service that runs in the background that runs the get functions?? inetd? or am I just missing the obvious.

Thx Jay

 

[stefanwagner]

You definitevly don't need inetd running, to find a host - I only start my inetd when I have to allow some ftp in the lan - mostly it's not running, but I can find global hosts fine.

Do you have /etc/host.conf

order hosts,bind
multi on

Do you get response, when inserting

[URL unfurl="true"]http://216.45.19.33[/URL]

into your browser?

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[jaytco]

I will check on the hosts.conf. I do not have a web browser installed yet. So I can not verify the wed.

 

[jaytco]

no /etc/host.conf

 

[unixfreak]

You don't need a host.conf only resolv.conf.

Cheers

 

[jaytco]

After much effort, and a reload of the OS I found that for some reason Gentoo was only reading the first entry in /etc/resolv.conf. Just so happened that this DNS server was no longer providing DNS services (At lease would not return responce) but was still alive. And for some reason, it would not query the next DNS server in the list. Hmmmm

Thx for the help