From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 22 0:58:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB1EE37B6BC for ; Mon, 22 May 2000 00:58:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA20347; Mon, 22 May 2000 00:58:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3928E8A4.536FF9BE@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 00:58:28 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0508 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Craig Beasland Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Name resolution References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Craig Beasland wrote: > > Hi there, > > I have a very curious one. > > A domain www2.eddept.wa.gov.au cannot be reached from FreeBSD. I have tried > to ping this machine from FreeBSD machines and get a cannot resolve error. > Using windows or Linux I do not get this error. All machines use the same > DNS servers and the domain looks up OK using nslookup (to an alias). Neither the domain eddept.wa.gov.au nor wa.gov.au is currently delegated. That means that nameservers on the global internet cannot see it. If I had to guess, I'd say that you have DNS records for that zone somewhere on your internal network, and for some reason your freebsd configuration is slightly different from your other machines. Good luck, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message