Re: [ILUG-BOM] bash proxy settings

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:20:02 +0530, "____________ (Anand M R)" libld.so@gmail.com wrote:

I tried the above but now when i try to ping www.google.com ping: unknown host www.google.com is what i get.

The problem lies in the DNS.

When you set the proxy, http requests go through the proxy.. including the url.. so if the proxy server machine has a DNS resolver IP configured, the proxy will be able to resolve the IP and thus will be able to get the data.

But when you ping from your machine, it does not know how to reach the pinged machine as you niether have it in /etc/hosts nor have you configured a DNS resolver IP on your machine.

So you have to configure a DNS resolver IP on your machine if you want to be able to ping.