DNS Resolution not working

[BRM]

OpenDNS would not have solved the issue as it had to have been something in the caching of naming data that got screwed up.

The solution I earlier posted - editing /etc/nsswitch.conf to remove [NOTFOUND=return] from the hosts line temporarily - resolved the issue entirely;
why I don't know, I'm just guessing it reset some cache somewhere in the system. No amount of restarts did anything.

Ben

> From: Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>

>To: BRM <bm_witness at yahoo.com>; Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 8:44 AM
>Subject: Re: DNS Resolution not working
>try openDNS
>Check to make sure your router is not broken.
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>On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:18 AM, BRM <bm_witness at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Well, I got it working but I really don't know why.
>>I finally went into /etc/nsswitch.conf and removed the [NOTFOUND=return] from the "hosts" line; and it started working.
>>I re-added it and it continued working, so I'm really not sure what it fixed - may be it cleared some cache or something.
>>I'll see if it continues to work tomorrow when I get back to work.
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>>Ben
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>>>To: "kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>>Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 5:41 PM
>>>Subject: DNS Resolution not working
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>>>I am having severe difficulty with my Kubuntu 13.04 installation whereby the DNS simply will no longer resolve.
>>>I have disabled dnsmasq from NetworkManager to try to fix it, and I have also tried the reconfiguring resolvconf per the below URL.
>>>http://askubuntu.com/questions/137037/networkmanager-not-populating-resolv-conf#172517
>>>Even after several reboots the system fails to resolve DNS names for most applications (nslookup works just fine, but not Firefox, svn, Dolphin, etc).
>>>I'm at wits end trying to figure out where to look next. DNS has been a little flaky for a while - requiring a second time to get it to resolve - but now its outright dead.
>>>As it is my work laptop, I really need to get it working again. (Writing this from my personal tablet.)
>>>Ideas?
>>>Ben
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