FS#26735 - dns resolving failure on all applications, except nslookup, wget -4, and ping

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jonathan Ryan (jryan) - Thursday, 03 November 2011, 19:35 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 04 June 2012, 21:04 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
While trying to resolve a DNS using wget or curl (or any other application for that matter)
I get a "Name or service unknown". However, nslookup, ping and host can resolve this DNS
and all others tested.

Works on other platforms behind the firewall.
The names are resolved out of the box on Ubuntu and windows.
I've also tried this on two arch boxes from inside of the network.

If I run "wget -4" instead of just plain "wget", the name resolution works.
The problems with this:
- Why does -4 work and not -6? Shouldn't it fall back to 4?
- Why does this work in Ubuntu 10.10 but not Arch.

Additional info:
- ipv6 disabled, was not disabled before, tried this to resolve the problem
- behind corporate firewall, need proxy to access outside
- issue does not exist in ubuntu 10.10 or windows
- related package versions
- iputils 20101006-1
- wget 1.13.4-1
- curl 7.22.0-1
- dnsutils 9.8.1-1


Steps to reproduce:
- See example.txt

Related help materials:
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504951
- http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=264792

Thanks!
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Monday, 04 June 2012, 21:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jonathan Ryan (jryan) - Thursday, 03 November 2011, 19:38 GMT
Forgot these.
Comment by Jonathan Ryan (jryan) - Thursday, 03 November 2011, 19:38 GMT
More...
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 02 June 2012, 13:03 GMT
Status?
Comment by Jonathan Ryan (jryan) - Monday, 04 June 2012, 15:09 GMT
Fixed here.

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