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From: Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Random domain name resolution errors
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 14:36:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgjmplhl.fsf@jlicht.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pneqfs4p.fsf@ambrevar.xyz>

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> Hi!
>
> A strange thing just happened to me: ever since I went to Belgium last
> week (don't know if it's relevant) I keep getting domain name resolution
> errors.

>
> For instance right now duckduckgo.com fails but guix.gnu.org works.
>
> I'm back home now and the issue persists.
>
> Any clue how to investigate?

When I have *some* domain name resolution issues, it usually has
something to do with my nscd being a bit too eager caching negative
results. Assuming you are using Guix System, does `herd invalidate nscd
hosts' help?

  - Jelle

  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-07 13:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-07 13:23 Random domain name resolution errors Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-07 13:36 ` Jelle Licht [this message]
2020-02-07 13:38   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-07 13:42   ` Julien Lepiller
2020-02-07 13:51     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-14 14:59       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-14 17:22         ` Leo Famulari
2020-03-14 18:26           ` Pierre Neidhardt

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