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From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
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Subject: Re: DNS
To: david@samara.co.zw (David Kelly)
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 08:27:04 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970807113414.0080e100@samara.co.zw> from David Kelly at "Aug 7, 97 11:34:14 am"
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In a previous message, David Kelly said:
> Hi,
> provider, we can't look up anything inside our network.
> 
> If I do:
> 
> nslookup mail
> 
> or ..
> 
> nslookup mail.samara.co.zw. (note the trailing dot)
> 
> then the lookup is instant but
> 
> nslookup mail.samara.co.zw
> 
> times out.
> 
> 
> Any ideas on the source of the problem? The /etc/resolv.conf file contains:
> 
> domain          samara.co.zw
> nameserver      196.2.64.1		<- samara.co.zw = 196.2.64.1
> nameserver      147.28.0.34   
> nameserver      204.59.144.222
> nameserver      204.117.214.10

A couple of things. Do a reload or a restart on your named and check
/var/log/messages for errors. In fact, NEVER, reload or restart without
checking the log to make sure no error shows up. 

Second. Is 196.2.64.1 the ip address of the ppp connection to your
provider?

Third, use tcpdump to watch port 53 to see what's happening. Is it
trying to resolve internally?

Paul.


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