I have a standalone PC running Debian 6. DNS stopped working suddenly. I haven't changed anything. Email works because it has the ip address of the mail server. Firefox can apparently fend for itself. nslookup some_url or nslookup some_ip_address returns: nslookup: parse of /etc/resolv.conf failed.
There doesn't appear to be anything wrong with /etc/resolv.conf. My ISP says the ip address of the nameserver is correct and it responds to a ping. How can I find out what is wrong?
Could you post the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf file?
Hi,
try
dig some_url
and
dig some_url @8.8.8.8
What will you get?
Show me the /etc/resolv.conf please.
It looks that there is something wrong in it, maybe some hidden codes...
Next try:
dos2unix /etc/resolv.conf
and test again.
Regards,
xabbu
dig gave the same failure message.
I don't have dos2unix installed but my text editor shows if a line ends with cr. Both ip addresses for nameservers had a cr. I have no clue how it got there but that was causing the problem.
Thank you for the help!
Try just catting the file like:
$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
I've never needed dos2unix to see this in Debian or Redhat.