From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 25 16:24:20 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 0592F16A4CE for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:24:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from Breached.X-Istence.com (ool-435469d2.dyn.optonline.net [67.84.105.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8D8B043D1D for ; Wed, 25 Feb 2004 16:24:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from xistence@x-istence.com) Received: (qmail 4405 invoked by uid 0); 26 Feb 2004 00:24:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO x-istence.com) (10.10.10.55) by Breached.X-Istence.com with SMTP; 26 Feb 2004 00:24:21 -0000 Message-ID: <403D3CDE.3020208@x-istence.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 19:25:02 -0500 From: X-Istence User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040216 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <403D39A4.9080704@x-istence.com> <200402260118.40105.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <200402260118.40105.danny@ricin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Fetch unable to resolve. 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: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:24:20 -0000 Danny Pansters wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2004 01:11, X-Istence wrote: > >>Hello, >> >> >>I am having problems with fetch and ftp, being unable to resolve any DNS >>related matters. Like hostnames and stuff. >> >>However, nslookup, dig, and those tools still work just fine, i am >>wondering what the problem could be. See output below. >> >>If you need any other info, please let me know, the owner is thinking of >>having it reinstalled by the data center, but i would like to get to the >>bottom of this. >> >>Sequence of event in the last 4 days: >> >>1. tinydns installed, setup, and totally ready >>2. tinydns data copied to a new server, deamontools, tinydns and its >>stuff uninstalled >>3. Nothing done for a day or two > > > You also killed any tinydns/supervise processes? Yes, tinydns is not found on the server anymore, just dnscache, deamontools is also still there. dnscache was going to be used for the qmail mail server to ease up dns lookups. > > >>4. Login to setup a mail server, fetch is unable to retrieve ports >>5. Try to trouble shoot >>6. No means available to get it to work, and here i am. > > > > > So, are you perhaps still using your localhost or your box' IP (former) host > to resolve?, e.g. what's in /etc/resolv/conf? I reckon it should use some > upstream (your other?) nameserver now. Output of cat /etc/resolv.conf was posted: charon# cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 69.56.211.146 On localhost i installed dnscache to see if that would remedy the problem. All it has done is speed up DNS queries something i was going to add when i was going to compile adn install qMail anyways. > > Dan > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Jan-Willem