On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Gabriel M. Beddingfield wrote: > While the network connection works fine (I can ping any valid IP, such as my > email server, my home network, etc). However, DNS name resolution is not > working.
Some things to check: 1. Can you ping that name server? 2. What is /etc/nsswitch.conf 3. Check you dont have a firewall blocking UDP 53. If you have bind-tools installed, you can run queries directly and see what the server sends back. Im testing that name server from one of my servers in New York - it works fine from here: # dig @168.95.1.1 www.utk.edu ; <<>> DiG 9.2.5 <<>> @168.95.1.1 www.utk.edu ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51241 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.utk.edu. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.utk.edu. 60 IN CNAME oscar.ws.utk.edu. oscar.ws.utk.edu. 28800 IN A 160.36.178.162 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ws.utk.edu. 28800 IN NS ns0.utk.edu. ws.utk.edu. 28800 IN NS ns1.utk.edu. ws.utk.edu. 28800 IN NS ns2.utk.edu. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns0.utk.edu. 28800 IN A 160.36.0.66 ns1.utk.edu. 28800 IN A 160.36.128.66 ns2.utk.edu. 28800 IN A 160.36.196.66 ;; Query time: 711 msec ;; SERVER: 168.95.1.1#53(168.95.1.1) ;; WHEN: Tue Apr 19 16:06:09 2005 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 170 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
