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Hi!

I have the following error on all Puppys and on any browser. I need a little helping hand!

Error: DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

THX!

Pick a specific Puppy version to work with to make changes.
Choose a specific browser to work with.
What network manager are you using to make internet connection?

This sounds like the DNS cache needs to be flushed. Is there a Windows OS on this machine?
Try in Chrome type browsers to flush the cache. In the URL bar enter:
click the "clear host cache" button.

chrome://net-internals/#dns

First steps troubleshooting.

Hi!
Nature of the problem...

Under Virtualbox:
- Puppy Slacko 5.7 (Palemoon)
- BionicPup32 (Chromium, LightWeb Browser)
- TahrPup64 (Seamonkey, Palemoon, Edge)

On my Acer Spin 1 (Frugal install)
- BionicPup64 (Palemoon, Chromium)

All work under macOS (Safari, Chrome), Solus 4.1 (Firefox) and Bodhi linux (Chromium)

Is it still strange that it affects Puppies under different installations and different browsers?

If you have a DNS problem, what happens if you edit the file /etc/resolv.conf and add the line:

nameserver 1.1.1.1

to the top of the file, and then restart the browser?
1.1.1.1 is the address of the CloudFlare public dns server.

If CloudFlare works your isp is not setting the dns server address properly.

williams2 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 5:09 am

If you have a DNS problem, what happens if you edit the file /etc/resolv.conf and add the line:

nameserver 1.1.1.1

Winning solution! it works! How do you go about finding the right DNS?

I would ask who is providing your internet service.
DNS server is usually supplied by them.
Well, my service does.

Winning solution! it works! How do you go about finding the right DNS?

Your isp usually proivides it's own dns nameservers.

usually, dhcp gets the nameservers from the isp and puts it in /etc/resolv.conf.
Have you configured Puppy to connect using dhcp? if dhcp works, it's probably the best way to connect. Unless you really need a static local address.

You can probably find your isp's dns address(es) on their webpages. Maybe a Google search, or maybe it's in their faqs.
Or you can email or even phone them and ask.

Or you can continue to use public dns servers.
CloudFLare is 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1
IBM's Quad9 is 9.9.9.9
Google is 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (I'm not sure of that last one.)
There's also OpenDNS.
I think Verizon has a public dns server.

Ift you want to setup you own dsn servers, the best way is to put something like this in the file /etc/resolv.conf.head (create the file if it doesn't exist.

nameserver 1.1.1.1
nameserver 1.0.0.1
nameserver 9.9.9.9
nameserver 8.8.8.8

Puppy will try the first nameserver, if it times out it will try the next nameserver, then the next, etc, etc.

Please edit your title and mark it solved so that new folks won't think puppy linux can't do DNS.

Simple solution ... restart the router