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From: Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>
Subject: bug#37347: 'guix environment' fails after trying to follow the steps
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Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 09:15:56 +0200
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To: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>, Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357@gmail.com>, 37347@debbugs.gnu.org

Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com> writes:

> [snip]
> ...
> [19:40 ~/bs]$ ping guix.gnu.org
> ping: guix.gnu.org: Name or service not known
I actually have this sometimes as well. Are you on a less-than-stellar
WiFi-connection perhaps? I noticed the default (nscd?) configuration on
Guix systems caches 'negative' results for quite a while.

Could you try this command again after issuing:
`sudo herd invalidate nscd hosts'?

HTH!
- Jelle