[Nix-dev] name resolution in nix packages not working

[Tobias Hammerschmidt]

Wouter schrieb:
> Is this just restricted to the packages you installed (can you ping 
> www.google.com)?
> 
Yes it is. All packages from debian which do need name resolution are 
working without problems.
> What does your /etc/resolv.conf contain? It should have something like:
> nameserver x.x.x.x
> 
"cat /etc/resolv.conf" gives me:
nameserver 141.57.9.1
nameserver 192.168.1.254

The second entry is my DSL router.
> In case of Firefox, maybe you should set disableIPV6 (if you only have a 
> ipv4 router) since nameresolving can take some time in this case.
> 
It does not take some time -- it stops immediately when trying to open 
an address like www.google.com.
> Tobias Hammerschmidt wrote:
>> Hi I'm having a problem here with some packages. It seems that the 
>> name resolution does not work for packages that I install via nix-env 
>> -i. Pidgin can't connect to the ICQ login server. Firefox is unable to 
>> open any web sites (however entering an ip address does work). Has 
>> anyone experienced something similar?
>>
>> I'm using nix-0.10.1 and the nix-channel 
>> http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nix-stable. My OS is Debian 
>> GNU/Linux 4.0 (Etch) with kernel 2.6.18-4-686. Please ask me if you 
>> need further informations.
>>
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