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hostname not found = DNS problem?


freshwire
17-09-2009, 20:34
Exactly what I said in my post above

*edits post to make it convincing*

sandygws
17-09-2009, 20:28
In case anyone else encounters this problem, here's the fix:

Why doesn't DNS resolve in 64-bit OS's?

Many distributions don't provide all the 32-bit compatibility libraries that wine needs. In this case, wine needs 32-bit DNS libraries. On Ubuntu/Debian, this package is lib32nss-mdns. To install it on those OS's, use:

sudo apt-get install lib32nss-mdns

freshwire
17-09-2009, 20:05
This is strange. But your best hope for support is the uTorrent forum as said above.

DedicatedPros
17-09-2009, 18:22
Post on the uTorrent forum..

sandygws
17-09-2009, 11:11
Maybe this is relevant:

uTorrent 1.8.x simply won't work: every tracker returns the same 'hostname not found' error. However, if I downgrade to uTorrent 1.7.7, it works just fine!

Any ideas folks? I'd really prefer to use the newest build.

sandygws
16-09-2009, 23:58
Thanks monkey.

All done ... but still the same error + opendns tells me that 'You aren't using OpenDNS yet.'

freshwire
16-09-2009, 23:46
Are you running uTorrent in wine?

To setup opendns this is the steps:

$ nano /etc/resolv.conf

enter the following:

Code:
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
Running this is often useful (altho not always required):

$ /etc/init.d/networking restart

Then restart uTorrent.

sandygws
16-09-2009, 23:21
Thanks for the reply.

Same problem using OpenDNS: 'hostname not found'.

I doubt it, but could it be a hardware fault?

NickW
16-09-2009, 23:03
Sounds like a DNS issue. Try changing the servers in resolv.conf to something like OpenDNS servers. 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220

sandygws
16-09-2009, 22:32
I've been using uTorrent for a while, but today the torrents went red and the following error message appeared:

hostname not found
This happens regardless of which tracker I use. However, if I manually modify the announce url (by doubleclicking a torrent) and replace the hostname with the corresponding IP address, it works just fine.

The server is running Debian 5.

Does anyone know what might be causing this problem?