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Registered: 2016-07-06

Posts: 10

Why is pacman not working with a router set as nameserver?

Hi,

I'm new to Arch Linux and right at the beginning pacman confronted me with some strange behavior. For every mirror pacman quits with a "resolving timed out" messsage while all other tools, e.g. drill, ping, etc., had no problems resolving those hostnames. In the resolv.conf file was a nameserver entry of my routers ip address. After changing it to e.g. "8.8.8.8" pacman works fine. So why is pacman struggling with a router set as nameserver?

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x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 4,587

Re: Why is pacman not working with a router set as nameserver?

pacman uses libcurl, perhaps it has something to do with that. Please post the pacman option that you are trying with the debug option.

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,286

Re: Why is pacman not working with a router set as nameserver?

Everything works fine.

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Generated by resolvconf
domain fritz.box
nameserver 192.168.178.1

/dev/loop

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Registered: 2016-07-06

Posts: 10

Re: Why is pacman not working with a router set as nameserver?

pacman uses libcurl, perhaps it has something to do with that. Please post the pacman option that you are trying with the debug option.

Simply running 'pacman -Sy'. The debug output can be found on http://pastebin.com/LqqJ1gHf

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