Re: Inconsistent Internet access

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On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 01:00:26PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 08:56:07PM +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 16:38 +0200, spoffley wrote:
> 
> 
> > > I am running Rawhide and for the last couple of weeks I have had
> > > problems accessing the internet.  Opera has no problems, Firefox
> > > would not access the internet, but could access my router, until
> > > I disabled IPv6 in its configuration, BOINC cannot access the
> > > internet and neither can wget.  YUM is having problems with the
> > > mirrors and cannot access RPMFUSION at all.  I am having the
> > > same problems whether I am using my Router at home (not IPV6
> > > capable) or using Internet sharing on my cell phone.  IPV6 is
> > > not enabled in my network hardware profiles, but given the
> > > problem was ironed out with firefox by disabling IPv6 for it I
> > > am wondering if similar things are happening with BOINC and
> > > wget.  Any insights would be gratefully received.
> > 
> > hi,
> > 
> > I had the same problem today. Happened because of a broken dep . I'm on
> > a x86_64 and needed to manually install the 64bit nss-mdns to correct
> > it. (Thank you thomasj (#fedora))
> 
> I just commented it out of /etc/nsswsitch.conf after quite a bit of
> googling.  
> 
> In my case, I'm not sure if it's because I added, on an x86_64 box, the
> chromium repo, which installs several i586 packages.  The only things
> that seemed to have anything to do with it that was installed today was
> avahi-glib.i586 and, of course, nss-dns.i586
> 
> HOWEVER--I'm unable to reproduce it on another x86_64 machine, and even
> trying to backtrack and reproduce it, I was unable to do so. Therefore,
> I have to put it down to one of those oddities that isn't affecting many
> people.

It hit me today as well.  I had just included Spot's repo and
installed chromium.i586, and the missing nss-mdns.x86_64 package broke
lots of fun stuff like host name resolution.  Installing
nss-mdns.x86_64 fixed the problem, as noted earlier.

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