emerge/wget can't resolve domain names [SOLVED]

piffy · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 3 Location: Knoxville, TN

Well, I finally found the time to finish the install of Gentoo. However, I seem to have either done something wrong or there is some kind of problem with the way my firewall is setup.

When I try to emerge anything I am unable to connect to any of the mirrors. I have addd a few to the /etc/make.conf under the GENTOO_MIRRORS variable. I'm not sure, but I think the problem is with wget because every time it tries to connect and download the distfiles it resolves the host to 1.0.0.0, which obviously means it loops forever timing out on each host.

If I do a ping on the hostname, it resolves just fine and I get a response. I can ssh out to servers outside my network.

I haven't been able to find anything related to this in the forums or on the web at large. My firewall (which is really just a 4-port wireless dsl modem) isn't configured as a proxy, so I just have a direct connection to the internet, which is how the other machines on my network are configured.

Has anyone experienced similar problems? Ideas? I can't really do anything if I can't emerge any new packages.

piffy · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 3 Location: Knoxville, TN

I have done some more testing and I have gotten emerge to work, but I have to use IPs instead of domain names in the GENTOO_MIRRORS variable. Does anyone know why wget wouldn't be able to resolve a domain name, but say ping or ssh would?

I am currently running emerge -u world and it appears to be working. After I changed the mirrors to IP addresses it connected without a problem.

Ideas?

TIA

Landon

piffy · n00b Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 3 Location: Knoxville, TN

It looks like there was a problem with my Wireless DSL Gateway not properly resolving some DNS queries. It was the first nameserver entry in my /etc/resolv.conf, but once I moved it out of the way and put both the DNS servers configured on the gateway into my /etc/resolv.conf wget started working like expected.

No problems with Gentoo so far, just finicky hardware it appears.

tpereira · n00b Joined: 21 Feb 2013 Posts: 23

Had the same problem. Thanks. Funny thing was wget version 1.14 (in another machine) was able to resolve hostnames...