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wget unable to resolve host address

Posted October 30, 2014 25.2k views

I follow this steps https://www.dropbox.com/install?os=lnx to install dropbox on one of my droplets and it works perfect.

But now I am able to install on other droplet following the same steps. It retrieve this error:

–2014-10-30 08:59:14– https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=lnx.x86_64
Resolving www.dropbox.com (www.dropbox.com)… failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address ‘www.dropbox.com’

Can somebady help me fixing this?

Thanks in advance

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lauramoreno1436 October 30, 2014

cat /etc/resolv.conf:

Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)

DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND – YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN

nameserver 8.8.4.4
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 209.244.0.3

dig www.dropbox.com:

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3-Ubuntu <<>> www.dropbox.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

dig @8.8.8.8 www.dropbox.com:

; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-3-Ubuntu <<>> @8.8.8.8 www.dropbox.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

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francesco89 August 17, 2019

i have same problem how to solve this?

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VladimirChanaev October 25, 2019

SAME PROBLEM

New Droplet in Frankfurt. And it can’t resolve anything …

cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 67.207.67.2
nameserver 67.207.67.3

dig @8.8.8.8 www.dropbox.com

; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Ubuntu <<>> @8.8.8.8 www.dropbox.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

DO support page NOT working now too. I can’t open a ticket!

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