I tried that, and although I am not sure what should I look for in there it seems to be claiming
rt_sigsuspend([];; connection timed out; no servers could be reached I tried to telnet 72.14.179.5 53 (one of the DNS servers) and that did not got a response. Anyway, Linode support told me to add this to the resolve.conf nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 and that seemed to do the trick. Gabor On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 1:00 PM, guy keren <guy.choo.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > run this on the host: > > strace host www.google.com > > and scan the output. > > more efficient then guessing. > > --guy > > On 03/22/2015 12:50 PM, Gabor Szabo wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I run an Ubuntu based VPS on Linode. >> I few hours ago the machine stopped resolving hostnames. >> I think it was after an "aptitude safe-upgrade" and a reboot, but I am >> not sure. Maybe was like this earlier. >> >> It takes ages to ssh to it, once I got to the machine I can ping IP >> addresses from it, but I cannot ping anything with a hostname. >> >> this is what I have in resolv.conf >> >> # cat /etc/resolv.conf >> >> domain members.linode.com <http://members.linode.com> >> >> search members.linode.com <http://members.linode.com> >> >> nameserver 72.14.179.5 >> >> nameserver 72.14.188.5 >> >> options rotate >> >> >> I tried to replace the nameservers with others that are listed in >> another of my servers, but that did not make a change. >> >> How can I track down what has the server stopped resolving hostnames? >> >> Accessing the server via HTTP work as expected. >> >> Gabor >> >> >>
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