[ale] Fedora 13 DNS weirdness

[Greg Clifton]

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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