On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:32:40 -0400, Allen Winter
<winterz(a)verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A few months ago I posted the enclosed message and was given the fix to turn off
ipv6 support,
> which has worked fine for me ever since (i.e, add the line 'install ipv6
/bin/true' to /etc/modprobe.conf)
>
> Recently the DNS problems I described have come back... I did upgrade a new kernel
using yum.
> I still see the ipv6 line in my /etc/modprobe.conf file so I am at a loss. Any
ideas as to what may
> be causing resolver "dropouts"??
>
> Regards and Help!
> Allen
> -------------------
>
> Subject: Need help with a DNS problem
> Date: Friday 04 June 2004 01:04 pm
> From: Allen Winter <winterz(a)verizon.net>
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
>
> Howdy,
>
> I am having a strange issue on my new Fedora Core 2 install with DNS.
>
> I have three systems connected to ADSL via a Netgear WGR214v2 Router,
> with one running Redhat 9, one running FC1, and the other my new FC2 system.
>
> The Redhat system is running dhcpcd and has no problem getting addresses.
> The FC1 system is running dhclient and had no problem getting addresses.
>
> The new FC2 system is also running dhclient and fails to get addresses for only
> a *few* names I've encountered so far. And dig will give me an answer for
those
> names, but nslookup will fail. I have looked up everything I know and compared
> the FC1 and FC2 systems and they look to be configured the same.
>
> For example,
> % dig
myfidelity.members.fidelity.com
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>>
myfidelity.members.fidelity.com
> ;; global options: printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 3837
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;myfidelity.members.fidelity.com. IN A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
>
myfidelity.members.fidelity.com. 6056 IN CNAME
myfidelity.members.retail.fidelity.com.
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>
retail.fidelity.com. 52 IN SOA
dns3dccfw01.fidelity.com.
hostmaster.retail.fidelity.com. 2004060332 10800 3600 604800 60
>
> ;; Query time: 25 msec
> ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Jun 4 13:01:26 2004
> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 148
>
> % nslookup
myfidelity.members.fidelity.com
> Server: 192.168.0.1
> Address: 192.168.0.1#53
>
> ** server can't find
myfidelity.members.fidelity.com: NXDOMAIN
>
> Oh, and I forgot to mention that every now and then nslookup will return an address
for
myfidelity.members.fidelity.com,
> but that is not the typical case.
>
> Any ideas?
> Regards,
> Allen
>
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what's your /etc/resolv.conf look like?
% cat /etc/resolv.conf
; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
nameserver 192.168.0.1