On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 09:00 -0700, an anonymous Nabble user wrote:
> I don't know...why does it only not work with "txt"? Bare in mind I added
> the opendns DNS's exactly because my auto-assigned (probably ISP's) DNS
> addresses were giving me the timeout.
So the DNS TXT query timed out before. Then you changed "your router's"
forwarding DNS, and it still times out. Don't point at others DNS, look
closer to your own environment.
The answer (especially the one opendns gives) should be short enough to
fit into the usual UDP packet, so we can rule out (firewall?) issues
with TCP port 53.
However, the single point of failure is your router -- assuming you
actually are using its DNS.
Did you ever try running a caching (non-forwarding) DNS on your SA box
and use that? If it works, your router is broken.
--
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu...@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
main(){ char h,m=h=*t++,*x=t+2*h,c,i,l=*x,s=0; for (i=0;i<l;i++){ i%8? c<<=1:
(c=*++x); c&128 && (s+=h); if (!(h>>=1)||!t[s+h]){ putchar(t[s]);h=m;s=0; }}}
