Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 10:51:14 -0400 (EDT) From: flaw@videotron.ca To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Strange DNS problems Message-ID: <0FWN004O8YLHFY@falla.videotron.net>
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I recently tried installing FreeBSD 4.0 on a Cyrix MediaGX. I installed a minimal system from the net, used cvsup to grab the latest 4.0 stable sources, sucessfully performed a make world, and then compiled a custom kernel. I encountered no errors, and everything seemed to work properly, except for DNS lookups (using my ISP's DNS servers). There are two very strange things that I encountered in this: 1) The box was setup to perform ipnat, and the boxes behind it could perform DNS lookups fine, and 2) I took the hard disk out of the Cyrix box and put it in a Pentium Pro box (I booted the GENERIC kernel, and recompiled the kernel for i686) and after doing this it perfomed DNS lookups fine again (same exact setup except for the kernel). The Cyrix box is a little bizarre, so at first I thought that the whole deal might have been related to some strange incompatability between FreeBSD and the machine itself, but recently I've seen the same problem occur on a friend's Intel Pentium 166 (and once again I could find no reason as to why the problem would be occuring). My friend also mentioned that he was having the same problem on a FreeBSD pentium firewall that he had setup. I've setup and administered several FreeBSD boxes in the past without ever seeing anything like this. I'm curious as to whether or not anyone else has seen this problem, and if so has anybody found a way to fix it. Matthew Adie -- --> flaw@videotron.ca --> GnuPG Key ID: A6CD866B --> http://pages.infinit.net/fdesigns/pgp.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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