From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 6 14:22:33 2003 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 4D01A37B401 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:22:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-34-52.knology.net [24.214.34.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66A7943FBD for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:22:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h26MMUM7096631; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:22:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h26MMQ8J096630; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:22:26 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:22:26 -0600 From: David Kelly To: Paolo M Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND stange behavior Message-ID: <20030306222226.GA96597@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <20030306215023.64687.qmail@web14803.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030306215023.64687.qmail@web14803.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 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 ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message