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Dooley

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Registered: 2008-10-15

Posts: 7

Odd application specific networking woes

Running archlinux on an acer aspire one,

I using wicd as my wireless networking manager.

Basically some applications are connecting to the network(Lynx and ping) and some are not(firefox, midori and wget).

Is there some application specific issue I'm coming across?

I'm using google dns servers in my wicd DNS config and I'm not using direct ips to access sites, just entering google.com into each app.

It also seems when I use ping and get an ip(so say google resolves to 66.102.9.105), and I enter this into firefox/wget it works perfectly fine. Is the DNS server not resolving for specific apps or is there a cache on the local machine?

Thank for any help!

Last edited by Dooley (2010-03-05 16:23:01)

Dooley

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Registered: 2008-10-15

Posts: 7

Re: Odd application specific networking woes

Switched to a different network connection. Must be by crappy ISP.

skanky

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From: WAIS

Registered: 2009-10-23

Posts: 1,847

Re: Odd application specific networking woes

Might have been different time out values?

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Sin.citadel

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 267

Re: Odd application specific networking woes

try adding specific names with ip's to /etc/hosts and then check from GUI apps, this will tell if it actually is a DNS problem and not something else. you can also try using dnsmasq to cache dns requests to improve connectivity