wget can resolve addresses only when executed as super user

You are writing to /usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache which is not writable by users. If you run the command from your home folder, does it work ok?

Can you also give the output of:

ls -la /etc/resolv.conf

Thanks

The output i posted is obtained when executed from home folder.So that does not seem to work.

ls -la /etc/resolv.conf returned

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30 2010-09-05 13:07 /etc/resolv.conf

ok the ls -la output matches mine so should be ok.

Seems this line is where the outputs change:

Resolving www.google.com... open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY) = 3

What is the output of:

ls -la /etc/nsswitch.conf

Thanks

ls -la /etc/nsswitch.conf returns
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 513 2010-08-16 15:19 /etc/nsswitch.conf

looks ok too. What is the output of:

groups

If you create another user is the network access ok there?

groups returns

rohit adm dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare

Looks fine, ok try the new user and we'll see what's going on

groups returns

rohit adm dialout cdrom plugdev lpadmin admin sambashare

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Does not work for new user too...

btw

my w3m works fine

but ping and wget fails without administrative privilages

Sounds like a bug, i'd log a bug

I got some help from irc and found out that the cause of this is messing up of environment variables due to use of "sudo su". I reinstalled with maverick and wger works fine.

thanks actionparsnip for your time...

yeah, don't use sudo su. If you want a root-like terminal then run:

sudo -i

and you won't break stuff :)