So, do I hold the record for "questions debian-user can't answer"?
Happy new year to everyone (who uses the Gregorian calendar--and to the rest of you, too, just less appropriately). On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 01:19:23PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > So yesterday my Sarge server couldn't resolve any host names. Restarting > resolvconf did nothing. Adding new servers to /etc/resolv.conf did nothing, > even though [EMAIL PROTECTED] worked fine. > > I finally apt-get removed resolvconf and then rebooted (virtual server via > Rimuhosting). That worked. > > Except since then I got no mail. Almost all of my mail is forwarded via my > server (which answers to both finknetwork.com and fink.to) to my account on > Panix. > > Checking the mail logs on my box showed that panix.com was an "unknown > service". Uh, what? I could, for instance, ping Panix and it would work. I > could "dig -t mx panix.com" and be told that I needed mx.panix.com. But > Postfix, only, couldn't resolve hostnames. > > A bit of investigation showed that /etc/resolv.conf was a broken symbolic > link to a nonexistent /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf. Why? I removed the > resolvconf package and rebooted--why would a reassignment like that happen? > And in any case, how were other programs resolving if resolv.conf was > nonexistent? > > Recreating resolv.conf STILL didn't work, even after I restarted Postfix. I > had to reboot again. > > I HATE rebooting Linux boxes (even virtual ones). Hate it. > > Does anyone have an idea what the heck happened? > -- > Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! > Stupid mistakes you can correct! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
