networking - Could not resolve hostname, ping works

Question

I have installed RasPi Raspbian, and now I can't do ssh or git clone, only local host names are being resolved it seems. And yet ping works:

pi ~ $ ssh test.com
ssh: Could not resolve hostname test.com: Name or service not known

pi ~ $ git clone [email protected]:test.git
Cloning into 'test'...
ssh: Could not resolve hostname test.com: Name or service not known
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

pi ~ $ ping test.com
PING test.com (174.36.85.72) 56(84) bytes of data.

I sort of worked around it for github by using http://github.com instead of git://github.com, but this is not normal and I would like to pinpoint the problem.

Googling for similar issues but the solutions offered was either typo correction, or adding domains to hosts file.

Answer 1

This sounds like a DNS issue. Try switching to another DNS server and see if it works.

OpenDNS

• 208.67.222.222
• 208.67.220.220

GoogleDNS

• 8.8.8.8
• 8.8.4.4