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I'm having quite a strange behavior with wget since yesterday.

I can download files by using sudo wget, but when I try the same file with only wget, I can get this error:

yusufh@ubuntu-yuh:~$ wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
--2010-12-17 09:34:11--  http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
Resolving www.kegel.com... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `www.kegel.com'

and with sudo wget:

yusufh@ubuntu-yuh:~$ sudo wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
--2010-12-17 09:35:37--  http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
Connecting to 127.0.0.1:5865... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 190672 (186K) [text/plain]
Saving to: `winetricks'

100%[==================================================================================================>] 190,672     --.-K/s   in 0.03s   

2010-12-17 09:35:37 (6.92 MB/s) - `winetricks' saved [190672/190672]

After the comments below, here is an update:

I can use Google Chrome or Firefox perfectly without running it as root.

I use ntlmaps to connect to the office proxy. So I need to use 127.0.0.1:5865 as the proxy for clients.

Result for env | grep -i proxy:

NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,*.local,
http_proxy=127.0.0.1:5865
ftp_proxy=127.0.0.1:5865
all_proxy=socks://127.0.0.1:5865/
ALL_PROXY=socks://127.0.0.1:5865/
https_proxy=127.0.0.1:5865
no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,*.local

while sudo env | grep -i proxy is empty!

HELP!

Yusuf
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    Are other programs able to resolve DNS names without being root? If not, what are the permissions on the files used by the NSS (Name Service Switch) system, including /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf? – Michael Trausch Dec 17 '10 at 05:56
  • Yes, I'm able to use Google chrome; that's about the only program that uses Internet without root. – Yusuf Dec 17 '10 at 10:05
  • I just ran into this problem on Ubuntu 16 – Trevor Sullivan Sep 15 '16 at 15:46
  • Have you tried setting proxy for wget @TrevorSullivan ? Check [this](http://askubuntu.com/questions/346649/how-do-i-force-wget-to-use-a-proxy-server-without-modifying-system-files) or [this](https://www.unixmen.com/45713-2/). – Yusuf Sep 16 '16 at 01:38
  • @Yusuf Thanks -- I don't use a proxy though. It turned out to actually be a disk space issue, haha. Pretty straightforward. – Trevor Sullivan Sep 18 '16 at 17:53

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Connecting to 127.0.0.1:5865... connected. Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

What does it mean?

Hint: compare env | grep -i proxy with sudo env | grep -i proxy

plluksie
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  • nice pickup. I missed that at first glance. – benc Dec 17 '10 at 08:22
  • I use ntlmaps to connect to the office proxy. So I need to use 127.0.0.1:5865 as the proxy for clients. env | grep -i proxy gives NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,*.local, http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:5865/ ftp_proxy=ftp://127.0.0.1:5865/ all_proxy=socks://127.0.0.1:5865/ ALL_PROXY=socks://127.0.0.1:5865/ https_proxy=https://127.0.0.1:5865/ no_proxy=localhost,127.0.0.0/8,*.local, while sudo env | grep -i proxy is empty! – Yusuf Dec 17 '10 at 10:09
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OK, problem solved.

It was in fact a bug with the gnome-terminal of Ubuntu 10.04.

I found my answer here.

In brief, just do a 

sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal

Then close the terminal and launch it again! Such a simple solution for such a big problem!! :D

That's why you should always keep you Ubuntu updated :P (I didn't want to upgrade because I wanted to test some other things first, and the Internet connection is quite slow here; but I think I'd better do it now!!)

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I had this problem. I change My nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf to:

nameserver 8.8.8.8
user2517728
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  • Be careful with newer versions of Ubuntu though, the `/etc/resolv.conf` file is overwritten on each restart. You can still add it through `/etc/network/interfaces` though. – Yusuf Jul 19 '14 at 12:07