Browser does not resolve some urls

[pmaage]

Hi all !

I have a somewhat peculiar problem: my browser cannot resolve some urls.
The prime example (but it's not the only site affected): Google.

In the browser (firefox, konqueror) "www.google.de" does not get resolved.
In bash "ping www.google.de" returns "ping: unknown host www.google.de"
BUT in bash "host www.google.de" returns
"www.google.de is an alias for www.google.com.
www.google.com is an alias for www.google.akadns.net.
www.google.akadns.net has address 216.239.59.99
www.google.akadns.net has address 216.239.59.104"

If I cut'n'paste one of these addresses into the browser, it displays the site.
So the problem is not connectivity but address resolution.

The problem is specific to my linux-box (debian woody r2), the DNS repeater in the DSL router works for the rest of my zoo (MacOS X, Win2K, BeOS)

Pleasy, does anyone have any idea how to avoid this "manual DNS resolution" ?

[jasonlambert]

are the nameservers specified in /etc/resolv.conf the same name servers that are used by the other machines in your network?

Jason

[pmaage]

Absoluteley. I only have one "nameserver", my router reachable under 192.168.1.1 (Reachable under "myrouter" as well, but that wouldn't really work in that file, would it ?)

[pmaage]

I have found a partial cause and remedy.
By analysing the firewall logs of the router (unfortunately you can't view passed packets at the same time as dropped packets) I found that for some sites the answer is not send from the router to the client but from the DNS server to the client. Apparently the client on Linux doesn't accept an answer from someone it doesn't know.
So I added the my ISPs DNS servers to the resolv.conf and now it's working.
That's not really a solution to why address resolution works from the cli and not from the browser, but know I can at least work with my linux box.