Am 15.02.2014 22:37, schrieb SW: > Yes, you are correct. That is the cause of the problem. A quick entry of my > machine in the hosts file sorted that one out! > > I'm just baffled why I have never experienced this issue before
because you did not care about network details if your used nameserver would be sane you would not get timeouts instead of a clear NXDOMAIN [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ host 192.168.0.10 Host 10.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) your timeout looks like your DNS is trying to reslove the PTR for a private address with your forwarder or asking the root servers instead response NXDOMAIN a sane nameserver has these adresses registered _____________________________________________________________________ [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /var/named/chroot/var/named/named.empty $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. ( 2 ; Serial 3600 ; Refresh 3600 ; Retry 3628800 ; Expire 3600 ; negativer TTL-Cache ); IN NS localhost. _____________________________________________________________________ zone "1.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "2.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "3.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "4.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "5.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "6.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "7.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "8.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "9.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "16.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "17.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "18.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "19.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "20.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "21.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "22.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "23.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "24.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "25.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "26.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "27.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "28.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "29.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "30.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "31.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "0.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "254.169.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "2.0.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "100.51.198.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "113.0.203.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "255.255.255.255.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "3.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "4.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "5.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "6.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "7.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "8.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "9.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; }; zone "10.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "named.empty"; };