DNS Resolving/ Network related Problem [Solved]

[chasha420]

Hi guys,

I've transferred to a foreign country to finish off my undergrad studies, and I've settled in a dorm where we have a wired internet connection.

I'm facing some troubles...some web pages in firefox like (speedtest.net) or some other pages tend not to load...but in Chromium everything works flawlessly. I've contacted the IT staff there and they are saying that they do not block anything or even the ISP doesn't...so it's probably a problem with the networking/configuration.

Also I'm working as a part time freelancer, and developing software for my clients...and the project I'm working on is coded in python and it too seems to have problem resolving the dns...

This is what I get when I type the following commands:

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# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         sapsin2-4.mshom 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
loopback        sabayon         255.0.0.0       UG    0      0        0 lo
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     1      0        0 eth0


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# cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by resolvconf
search mshome.net
nameserver 192.168.0.1


I'm not sure what's the root of the problem but I think may be my linux box is having trouble converting names (gateway) to ip...I'm not sure but let me know what more information I should provide or what you think is the problem here.

Thanks!

Edit:
This is the error that I get when I try to run any python program that tries to connect to the internet:

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  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 553, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known


[genfool]

not sure, but I think I would start with resolvconf. I use googles dns servers, what I get is.

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jokertu genfool # cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by resolvconf
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
nameserver 192.168.100.1

[chasha420]

Alright, I added google's nameserver but I didn't see any difference on my part.

Anyway, let me give some more info about my connection.

First of all it's what they call a wired hotspot type of connection and it requires that you enter usrname & password into the form when you open up the browser and from there onwards...if you successfully login...you are allowed to browse and you're connected to the internet, etc.

I've a separate unencrypted windows partition...and it seems like everything works perfectly in Windows using firefox, etc.

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Windows IP Configuration

        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : none-def67ea2f4
        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Mixed
        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : mshome.net

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : mshome.net
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Marvell Yukon 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Et
ernet Controller
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-23-AE-0E-9F-96
        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.45
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, July 29, 2011 2:53:08 PM
        Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, August 05, 2011 2:53:08 PM

On linux everything works fine as well when I use Chromium and the problem I face is when using firefox (certain websites tends not get resolved (says: server not found)...and similar problem occurs with the python program that I mentioned earlier.

Also when I installed sabayon, I mistakenly forgot to change the hostname...so it is left as "sabayon"...so I'm not sure if that can cause a problem.

And does these look unusual?

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$ hostname
sabayon


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$ hostname -a
localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6


What ever the problem is...seems to me like a misconfiguration or something...please let me know what more information I should provide, etc.

Thanks a lot.

[Fitzcarraldo]

Moving this thread to the Networking and Wireless shed (forum).

[chasha420]

Thanks for moving this thread to it's proper section

I have now managed to fix the problem with Firefox...I read a few similar issues in this section and saw a suggestion from Fitzcarraldo where he suggested to set "disableipv6" to True in "about:config".

Now the only problem is fixing python to resolve the network properly...this is what I get:

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socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

Also is it possible to take the hostname mistakenly as localhost and fail to resolve the network? If so how do I check for that mistake and what do I do to fix it?

If anyone has faced similar issues in the past let me know...and in the mean time I'll research some more and come back if I find a solution.

Thanks guys!

[Fitzcarraldo]

Try: Gentoo Forums - [solved] python can no longer resolve hosts, but others can.

[chasha420]

Thanks for pointing that out, but after I changed "/etc/nsswitch.conf" to include "hosts: files dns"...I didn't see any difference...same old "socket.gaierror".

I'll see if there's any other threads related to that...and if anyone has any idea let me know.

Thanks.

[chasha420]

Sorry for the double post, but it seems I'm also having trouble updating/upgrading to the latest version.

This is what I get:

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# equo update --force
>>  @@ Repositories synchronization ...
>>   # Sabayon Linux Official Repository
>>   # Repository URL: http://pkg.sabayon.org/standard/sabayon-weekly/database/x86/5
>>   # Repository local path: /var/lib/entropy/client/database/x86/sabayon-weekly/standard/x86/5
>>   # Repository API: 3
>>    Downloading repository ...
>>    Attention: repository does not exist online.


Is that normal? I wonder if the network problem is responsible for that...if not then how do I fix it?

Thanks.

[chasha420]

Hey guys I've searched some more and this is the best I could come up with:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-852484-start-0.html

The solution suggests that I need to recompile kernel with disabled support for ipv6 flags...I'm not sure how to go about doing that but let me know if there's any other solution.

Thanks.

[Fitzcarraldo]

1. You can check if the ipv6 kernel module is loaded or not by using the command:

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lsmod | grep ipv6

2. Uncomment the line "alias net-pf-10 off # IPv6" in the file /etc/modprobe.d/aliases.conf, then enter the command update-modules as root user.

3. See Step 1.