Weird DNS problem

[rpg.314]

Hi

I am suffering from a particularly nasty DNS problem. This is on fedora 11, 64 bit.

~@rpg> host www.google.com
www.google.com is an alias for www.l.google.com.
www.l.google.com has address 209.85.153.104
~@rpg> wget www.google.com
--2009-07-20 21:59:15-- http://www.google.com/
Resolving www.google.com... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `www.google.com'
~@rpg> nslookup www.google.com
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
www.google.com canonical name = www.l.google.com.
Name: www.l.google.com
Address: 209.85.153.104

~@rpg>

Chromium browser is working perfectly, that's why it took me several days to spot the problem. Firefox and sw updates are totally jammed, however. However, if i feed to ff3.5, http://209.85.153.104, I see the google homepage alright.

All settings were done using the network manager. I am using my ISP's dns.

Any suggestions?

 

[Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.]

Try switching to OpenDNS and see what happens. It may be a problem at your ISP.

 

[Zaphod]

nscd restart?

 

[the maddman]

If nslookup is working, I don't think it's a DNS problem but a resolver problem. What's your /etc/resolv.conf look like?

 

[hoom]

I get rather different nslookup for www.google.com

C:\Windows\system32>nslookup www.google.com
Server:  Snafu
Address:  192.168.1.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    www.l.google.com
Addresses:  74.125.19.103
          74.125.19.104
          74.125.19.105
          74.125.19.106
          74.125.19.147
          74.125.19.99
Aliases:  www.google.com

209.85.153.104 does have a google reverse DNS though so may just be a difference in regional google loadbalancing setup?

C:\Windows\system32>nslookup 209.85.153.104
Server:  Snafu
Address:  192.168.1.1

Name:    im-in-f104.google.com
Address:  209.85.153.104

Can you get to www.google.co.in?