From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 10 8: 5:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9E04A37B405 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:05:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 67251 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Oct 2001 15:05:18 -0000 Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:05:18 -0700 From: Jon Rust To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no local DNS resolving?! Message-ID: <20011010080515.C58711@mail.vcnet.com> Mail-Followup-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20011009220853.A47799@mail.vcnet.com> <20011009233457.E387@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011009233457.E387@blossom.cjclark.org>; from cristjc@earthlink.net on Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 11:34:57PM -0700 X-Operating-System: http://www.freebsd.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Crist J. Clark wrote: > > Could be a few things. First, does, > > $ dig jon.vc.net > > Or > > $ dig @127.0.0.1 jon.vc.net > > Work at ns1? Second, what does, > > $ netstat -an | fgrep .53 > > Return? Finally, what about, > > $ ifconfig ifconfig led me down the right path. I have 2 aliased addresses on the NIC in that box. Lookups on the aliased addresses were failing on the machine itself (but working from off of them). Heck, I couldn't even ping them from the box itself. I had them aliased with propper netmasks (255.255.255.192). Changing the nm to 255.255.255.255 solved the problem. Thanks for the pointers. Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message