[clue-tech] Partial network problem

[David L. Anselmi]

Jason Friedman wrote:
> $ dig www.google.com
> <snip>
> www.google.com.		603906	IN	CNAME	www.l.google.com.
> www.l.google.com.	35	IN	A	209.85.225.147
> <snip>
> ;; Query time: 36 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Sep  2 04:12:17 2010
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 359

> $ ping www.google.com
> ping: unknown host www.google.com

What's in /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf?  Why are you using localhost as your name server?

Dave