On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:50:00AM -0400, Peter Flynn wrote: > Jim Perrin wrote: > >>Tried that several times, but the answer is always "it must be your DNS". > > > >That usually is the problem for what you're describing. > > But the odd thing is that no matter where in the world I connect > (and therefore using the DNS of whoever I'm connected through) I > still get the same error. If it was only on (for example) my home > network using my own ISP's DNS, I'd agree the DNS would be the > problem, but it's everywhere (and no, I'm not running a DNS on my > laptop, and yes, my connections do all use the DHCP-provided DNS > addresses :-) try gethostip rather than nslookup. I've seen issues with /etc/nsswitch.conf and (for example) nis cause calls to gethostbyname(3) to fail. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department and Optical Sciences Center 520-626-1619 University of Arizona ECE 524G
