[nylug-talk] DNS resolution dying

Tino Dai tdai at optonline.net
Sun May 11 22:53:00 EDT 2003


Thanks peter......one question. Though, how come when I reboot, DNS
lookups work for a while?

-Tino

On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 16:49, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> Firewall issues.  Run lokkit and see if you're allowing dns through.
> 
> -Peter
> 
> On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 04:11:46PM -0400, Tino Dai wrote:
> > Hey Everybody in LinuxLand,
> > 
> >    I have run across this annoying problem on one of my RH 8.0 boxes.
> > The DNS resolution is dying. When I do a dig, I get a connection timed
> > out. I have checked that the DNS server is up (it's at my ISP), but when
> > I issue a name resolution call, it just hangs. But, I can reach places
> > with using the ip address so I know that I still have connectivity. And
> > the only thing that seems to resolve this is a reboot. Have any of you
> > guys seen this?
> > 
> > -Tino
> > 
> > 
> > 
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