Re: can only resolve dns names as root or with explicit nameserver address
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:29, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2009-11-23 18:18 +0100, Kelly Clowers wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:08, Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Using Sid here, I suddenly cannot resolve DNS names normally. My web
>>> browsers, ping and dig do not work with names (ping works with an ip
>>> address), but sudo ping and sudo aptitude resolve normally and dig
>>> works as my user if I give it the ip address of the nameserver (e.g.
>>> dig @192.168.1.1 cnn.com). I am really confused by this one. Any
>>> ideas?
>>>
>>
>> Never mind, it turns out dhclient is giving resolv.conf the wrong permissions.
>
> Might still be interesting to find out why it suddenly does that. Which
> version of dhclient do you use?
isc-dhcp-client 4.1.0-1 is what I am using (might be experimental,
instead of sid).
I will look into it more closely tomorrow.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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