Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 12:36:58 -0800 From: Peter Schoenmaker <pds@dgsi.com> To: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dns resolution problems Message-ID: <20021111203658.GD11081@dgsi.com> In-Reply-To: <C0674812-F5AB-11D6-BFBA-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net> References: <20021111191237.GC11081@dgsi.com> <C0674812-F5AB-11D6-BFBA-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net>
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On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:28:27AM -0800, Kevin Stevens wrote: > > On Monday, Nov 11, 2002, at 11:12 US/Pacific, Peter Schoenmaker wrote: > > >I am having problems resolving hosts with freebsd. Specificly i have > >problems resolving hosts @ united airlines. These include www.ual.com, > >www.united.com, www.ua2go.com, www.itn.net. Some of them use different > >dns servers but they still have the problem. I have tried to look into > >the problem but can't find it. > > Works from here, 4.7 RELEASE running bind. > > > The problem doesn't occur on solaris > >2.8/2.9, or windows. > > Are those machines on the same network? The Windows machine probably > isn't doing resolution itself, so what nameserver is it using? Is your > FreeBSD machine using the same one, or is it running a nameserver > itself? I have tried it from multiple machines on different networks. With the same result. I have tried both my own name server, and my provider's name server with similar results. > > > I am running FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE, and the box > >is not behind a firewall. I have tried having the box resolve again > >multiple DNS servers with the same result. Does anyone have any ideas, > >or are experiencing the same problem? > > More specifics would help, but I doubt it's a FreeBSD issue. Places to > look: > > How is your machine represented to the Internet? (what does its name, > IP address, reverse lookup look like) How is this information > different than the boxes that are working? External DNS servers may > (unusually) have restrictions on who they'll respond to. I have tried this from multiple places, both with matching forwards and reverses, and with no dns at all, same result. > > Are you running a DNS server locally, or are you pointed somewhere > else? (resolv.conf) How does this relate to how the other boxes are > configured? > > When you say "can't resolve", what do you mean? Does the query never > get issued, does it not get a response, or is the response not > useful/correct? I means that when i do a 'host www.ual.com' or a dig www.ual.com there is no A record returned. peter > > KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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