Subj : Re: Weird internet problem in Debian
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Baruch
Date : Sun Sep 05 2004 12:32 am

Paul Nolan wrote:

> Hi,
> I recently (a couple of months ago) switched back to Debian, and while
> nearly everything is fine (some stuff even better - it's faster for one)
> I've run into a strange problem with internet software.
> 
> The stuff I use most of the time (Firefox, Thunderbird & Konqueror, as
> well as a few others) work fine, but I've noticed some others (Opera,
> wget, even ping for some reason) can't resolve any addresses except
> sephiroth and edea (my local computers). If the problem was global, I'd
> think it was my network setup, but as it's only a few programs I'm
> drawing a blank.
> 
> Any ideas? (I really need to use wget to grab something, as it's a pain
> in the arse getting the whole thing separately with Firefox)
> 
Do these programs (Opera, et al.) use different config. files for their
info?  I cannot imagine what ping would be using, though...  I'm thinking
defaults are somehow changed or corrupted, but if it's *ping* and Opera...

Did you encounter this problem right from the start, or were things working
at first?  Did you do a new install, or did you preserve your
configurations?

Sounds almost like a hosts problem, but why would that only affect certain
programs, and not others?  Maybe have a look at your /etc/hosts file and
see whether it has strange things in it...

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