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wget: unable to resolve host address `http'

Posted on Apr 10, 2023

Question

I am getting this strange thing on my Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit machine when I do a wget

$ wget google.com

–2014-07-18 14:44:32–  http://google.com/


Resolving http (http)… failed: Name or service not known.


wget: unable to resolve host address `http’

I have encountered this problem earlier when I got it for any web pages (and not http), which required me to add my nameserver to /etc/resolv.conf.

However, here that doesn't seem to be the problem, instead it is recognizing http as something different. Any advise?

Answer

The DNS server seems out of order. You can use another DNS server such as 8.8.8.8. Put nameserver 8.8.8.8 to the first line of /etc/resolv.conf.