From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 01:20:38 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3506E16A4F1 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:20:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from fuse1.fusemail.net (smtp.fusemail.net [69.31.1.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC2643D6A for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 01:20:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zhangweiwu@realss.com) Received: from fusemail.com by fuse1.fusemail.net with asmtp (FuseMail extSMTP) id 1B8btJ-0001qw-ED; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 03:20:09 -0600 Message-ID: <406A8D19.8080202@realss.com> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 17:19:21 +0800 From: Zhang Weiwu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040227 X-Accept-Language: zh-cn, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shantanoo References: <20040330164404.GC4335@dhumketu.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <20040330164404.GC4335@dhumketu.homeunix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sf.net: host not found X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:20:38 -0000 Shantanoo wrote: >+++ Zhang Weiwu [freebsd] [30-03-04 16:29 +0800]: >| >| Hello. It has been three days since I cannot access sourceforge.net, using >| many different Chinese dns server: >| >| zhangweiwu@thinkpad:~>host sf.net >| Host not found, try again. >| zhangweiwu@thinkpad:~>host sourceforge.net >| Host not found, try again. >| >| It behave like the last year's Google being blocked in China. But I don't >| know sourceforge has anything to do with political stuff. >| >| Can anyone tell me sourceforge's ip address? Or better tell me a >| world-accessible dns server, that I can help myself with such things. >| >| If it is truly blocked, then it is no use to have IP address. But I'll have >| a try. >| >| Thank you. > >As you are using FreeBSD, why not have your own caching name server? >Method: > >1. set your hostname > hostname="test.tld" > in your /etc/rc.conf >2. cd /etc/namedb >3. sh make-localhost >4. start named. > add following line in /etc/rc.conf > named_enable="YES" > >to test > >dig -x 127.0.0.1 > > That does not solve my problem. Perhaps I'm not clear. The situation is my ISP's dns server cannot return IP address for *.sourceforge.net, *.slashdot.org. Other local ISP's dns server cannot return IP address for *.sourceforge.net & *.slashdot.org. zhangweiwu@thinkpad:~>dig @210.34.0.14 sourceforge.net ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @210.34.0.14 sourceforge.net ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; res_nsend: Operation timed out Exit 9 I talked about it on local forums and happen to find most Chinese dns servers behave the same. If you heard of the last year's Chinese political event of blocking google access from non-experts, you know what I'm talking about. This time it seems sourceforge and slashdot are blocked. The best solution to me perhaps is to find a free-accessible dns server. I happen to find one on local forums: 69.67.108.10 is working for me.