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wget can not resolve on my droplet. I think this problem started when your infrastructure rebooted a while back this year??

Posted on October 21, 2016

below I try to wget to google.com, Ive tried bbc and others but still wget is not able to resolve hosts:

wget http://google.com

–2016-10-21 17:44:10-- http://google.com/ Resolving google.com



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Does

wget --inet4-only http://google.com

work for you at all?

Also, I assume you’re saying that DNS resolution seems to work otherwise?

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