Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 21:17:41 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: Alexander Anderson <cactoss@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Resolver issues Message-ID: <20001203211741.Z99903@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> In-Reply-To: <20001203175100.A20490@dusty.galima.2y.net>; from cactoss@yahoo.com on Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 05:51:00PM -0500 References: <20001203175100.A20490@dusty.galima.2y.net>
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On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 05:51:00PM -0500, Alexander Anderson wrote:
> I've been having this problem for a while now, but had no luck solving
> it. My problem is that the hostnames that do not exist or those that are
> down resolve to myself.
>
> Here's an example:
>
> $ ifconfig tun0 | grep "inet "
> inet 64.229.84.85 --> 64.229.84.1 netmask 0xffffff00
^^^^^^^^^^
Well that doesn't look right.
> $ ping example.com
> PING xxxxx.xxx (64.229.84.85): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 64.229.84.85: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.311 ms
> 64 bytes from 64.229.84.85: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.518 ms
> 64 bytes from 64.229.84.85: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.327 ms
> 64 bytes from 64.229.84.85: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.946 ms
> 64 bytes from 64.229.84.85: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.583 ms
>
> --- xxxxx.xxx ping statistics ---
> 5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.311/0.537/0.946/0.230 ms
>
> You see what's going on?
Weird.
> I'm not running DNS. /etc/resolv.conf contains only two lines: primary
> and secondary nameservers of my ISP.
>
> Any suggestions where should I look?
That netmask is strange. What does your routing table look at it while
we're at it?
But more to the point, what happens if you have a 'tcpdump port 53'
running when you get these odd lookup results? A,
# tcpdump -vvnX port 53
Would be even better.
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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