While traveling, I found a motel with WiFi where Firefox and the DNS
utilities,
nslookup and dig, worked as expected, but wget, termtter (a CLI Twitter
client), my Ruby on Rails applications, and several other programs could
not
resolve any domain names (getaddrinfo error, from memory). If I plugged
the
IP address obtained with nslookup into /etc/hosts, they worked as
expected.
Could anyone enlighten me about how these programs resolve domain names
differently?
TIA,
Jeffrey