Linux/Unix DNS question

Rails
1

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

2

Sounds like the ports were being blocked.

On 14 April 2010 21:36, Jeffrey L. Taylor [email protected] wrote:

differently?
.
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3

Which ports. clearly not 53 (DNS).

Jeffrey

Quoting C. A. Lopez [email protected]: