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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:22:26 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Paolo M <fabrica64@yahoo.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BIND stange behavior
Message-ID:  <20030306222226.GA96597@grumpy.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030306215023.64687.qmail@web14803.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20030306215023.64687.qmail@web14803.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:50:23PM -0800, Paolo M wrote:
> 
> I saw a very starnge behavior accessing mail.yahoo.com
> from a connected Apple MacOS (but also from any other
> PC), the first attempt to resolve the names replies an
> error. If I repeat the request everything is fine. If
> I wait some minutes all the sequence repeats...

I got nipped by the same symptoms this week myself. In my case the issue
was in the firewall. Was surprised to find MacOS X 10.2.4 Jaguar
alternately uses TCP to do DNS lookups. Sometimes it uses UDP, sometimes
TCP, within moments.

Strangely, my test lookup which caused so much trouble was
www.yahoo.com.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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