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From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Alexander Anderson <cactoss@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Resolver issues
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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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