[sf-lug] curious name resolving problem

[jim]

    (assuming you're using the same system and you 
get the same results) please 
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf 
and share the contents. 

    perhaps reboot blindly and hope things work--
I find this a useful approach (you have to be 
comfortable with "to hell with understanding why..). 



On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 10:46 -0800, Alex Kleider wrote:
> I've got a puzzling situation in which ping works but ssh can't
> resolve a url.
> Can anyone suggest how this can be? I reckon if I understood that, I
> might be able to fix it.
> 
> Here's the evidence:
> """alex at dp8:~$ ping kleico.net
> PING kleico.net (76.191.206.83) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 76-191-206-83.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net (76.191.206.83):
> icmp_req=1 ttl=251 time=21.6 ms
> 64 bytes from 76-191-206-83.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net (76.191.206.83):
> icmp_req=2 ttl=251 time=21.5 ms
> 64 bytes from 76-191-206-83.dsl.dynamic.sonic.net (76.191.206.83):
> icmp_req=3 ttl=251 time=20.8 ms
> ^C
> --- kleico.net ping statistics ---
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 20.895/21.379/21.668/0.383 ms
> alex at dp8:~$ ssh -p5223 kleico.net
> ssh: Could not resolve hostname kleico.net: No address associated with
> hostname
> alex at dp8:~$ ssh -p5223 76.191.206.83
> alex at 76.191.206.83's password: 
> """
> I've googled "ssh fails to resolve url" but only find references to
> situations when all resolving function fails, not when it seems to
> affect only ssh.  Firefox resolves kleico.net satisfacorily as does
> w3m:
> """
> w3m http://kleico.net:5162
> """
> Can anyone shed some light?  It would be appreciated.
> alex
> ps Apologies to Rick for using "Security by Obscurity":-)  I was doing
> it before I first heard you disparage the practice and just simply
> never switched back- mainly because it's a way of getting to specific
> machines when there are more than one on the network.
> a_kleider at yahoo.com
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