{Spam?} RE: My kingdom for a working DNS

[Andre Costa]

A good way to test a nameserver is

dig @name-server name

such as in

dig @your-ISP-nameserver www.redhat.com

This bypasses any local caching that might exist.

HTH

Andre

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:20:51 -0500
"Earl Moore" <lists at enfuego.us> wrote:

> You may want to check your dns server settings in /etc/resolv.conf you
> should have something like:
> 
> nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> 
> If there is an entry there, try to ping it (your isp's dns server
> could be down).
> 
> I've installed the caching nameserver and set the resolv.conf
> "nameserver" variable setting to my computer's ip.  If you need more
> details let me know.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Alberto Molteni
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 3:06 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: My kingdom for a working DNS
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I've finally managed to get my speedtouch adsl modem
> working. As it turned out, the speedtch module was
> causing modem_run to hang. Unloading it resulted in a
> bright green flash on the ADSL led (Thanks Fulvio!)
> 
> So, sing loud sing proud, I was already half way to
> the moon when... catastrophe arrived disguised as a
> malfunctioning DNS system.
> 
> What happens is this: all internet-based applications
> work perfectly so long as I use IP addresses, but when
> I dare to use a domain name, or just even click on an
> absolute href link, the whole system falls to pieces.
> Every single program reports Host unavailable/not
> found. For example: launching Mozilla and typing
> 66.187.232.50 in the location bar will bring up RedHat
> Home Page, but www.redhat.com will result in a quite
> inelegant error message. I even tried this: "ping
> 66.132.146.48" (WinMX site) works, but "ping
> www.winmx.com" doesn't.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> Alberto Molteni
> alberto_molteni at yahoo.com
> 
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Andre Oliveira da Costa