Wget not working

wget

wget is not working properly on my debian server.

if I wget http://www.google.com, it says it cannot resolve the host, when I ping google.com, I receive a successful pong and when I wget http://www.debian.org it works.

I cannot wget anything else than debian.org … pretty weird.

Check your DNS cat /etc/resolv.conf, and the table lookup for host names cat /etc/hosts. Try changing to Google's DNS:

echo "8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf
echo "8.8.4.4" >> /etc/resolv.conf

There are very good answers in this question, be sure to check them out, but what I've done is this:

wget [wget options] 2>&1 | grep -i "failed\|error"

You can redirect the output of wget to /dev/null (or NUL on Windows):

wget http://www.example.com -O /dev/null

The file won't be written to disk, but it will be downloaded.