Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:44:19 +0930 (CST) From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: david@samara.co.zw (David Kelly) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS Message-ID: <199708080014.JAA16082@freebie.lemis.com> 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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David Kelly writes: > Hi, > > We're an ISP using FreeBSD 2.1.7.1 on our servers. We have a problem with > our DNS. Our domain is SAMARA.CO.ZW When doing an nslookup for anything > within that domain (e.g. mail.samara.co.zw) it appears that the lookup is > done outside our network. If we disconnect our link to our upstream > 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 This is a funny-looking resolv.conf. You're running a local name server, but three of the addresses appear to be pointing to different continents. It shouldn't cause timeouts, but it won't cause blinding speed either. Where is this file? You shouldn't have it on any system which runs a name server. If this is really *on* samara.co.zw, remove or rename it, and try again. If it still doesn't work, let's see your /etc/named.boot file. Greg
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