[Ma-linux] [Dclug] Bizarre Browser Behavior

[Kevin Dwyer]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Alan McConnell <alan at patriot.net> wrote:
> Now the exact same thing has happened, but with Wikipedia.org.  ! ? ! ?
> I point my browser at wikipedia.org, and I get:
>        Iceweasel can't find the server at www.wikipedia.org.

Alan, first try to see if your computer is having issues resolving DNS
for www.wikipedia.org.  I would use the host command like this:

$ host www.wikipedia.org
www.wikipedia.org is an alias for rr.wikimedia.org.
rr.wikimedia.org is an alias for rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org.
rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org has address 208.80.152.2

That's good output.  If on the other hand you see: "Host
www.wikipedia.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)" then your DNS server is the
problem.  You can check which DNS server you are using in
/etc/resolv.conf.  For experiment's sake, you could add a nameserver
line that points to a different, public DNS server (and comment out
the others) and see if that improves your browsing experience.  Google
runs two at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

-kpd