Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:16:31 -0400 From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com> To: Willie Viljoen <will@unfoldings.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange dial-up related DNS problems Message-ID: <20030730221631.GA79233@pit.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <200307302316.37892.will@unfoldings.net> References: <200307302316.37892.will@unfoldings.net>
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:16:37PM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote: > > When connected to their ISP, SAIX, the machine can ping any live internet IP > and it can traceroute to anywhere, but, it can not talk to any DNS server. > Any traffic to port 53 UDP simply seems to dissapear. Sheer guess, but perhaps the PPP negotiation is giving them something weird (eg, 127.0.0.1) as the nameserver address. Have a look at /etc/resolv.conf while they're connected and at the ppp log. Have you tried dig @server.ip some.host? Any internal firewall in place? What do its logs/stats show? -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.
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