Need help with a DNS problem

[Allen Winter]

On Monday 30 August 2004 05:22 pm, Yang Xiao wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 15:32:40 -0400, Allen Winter <winterz at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > A few months ago I posted the enclosed message and was given the fix to turn off ipv6 support,
> > which has worked fine for me ever since (i.e, add the line 'install ipv6 /bin/true' to /etc/modprobe.conf)
> > 
> > Recently the DNS problems I described have come back... I did upgrade a new kernel using yum.
> > I still see the ipv6 line in my /etc/modprobe.conf file so I am at a loss.  Any ideas as to what may
> > be causing resolver "dropouts"??
> > 
> > Regards and Help!
> > Allen
> > -------------------
> > 
> > Subject: Need help with a DNS problem
> > Date: Friday 04 June 2004 01:04 pm
> > From: Allen Winter <winterz at verizon.net>
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > 
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > I am having a strange issue on my new Fedora Core 2 install with DNS.
> > 
> > I have three systems connected to ADSL via a Netgear WGR214v2 Router,
> > with one running Redhat 9, one running FC1, and the other my new FC2 system.
> > 
> > The Redhat system is running dhcpcd and has no problem getting addresses.
> > The FC1 system is running dhclient and had no problem getting addresses.
> > 
> > The new FC2 system is also running dhclient and fails to get addresses for only
> > a *few* names I've encountered so far.  And dig will give me an answer for those
> > names, but nslookup will fail.  I have looked up everything I know and compared
> > the FC1 and FC2 systems and they look to be configured the same.
> > 
> > For example,
> > % dig myfidelity.members.fidelity.com
> > 
> > ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> myfidelity.members.fidelity.com
> > ;; global options:  printcmd
> > ;; Got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 3837
> > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> > 
> > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;myfidelity.members.fidelity.com. IN    A
> > 
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > myfidelity.members.fidelity.com. 6056 IN CNAME  myfidelity.members.retail.fidelity.com.
> > 
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > retail.fidelity.com.    52      IN      SOA     dns3dccfw01.fidelity.com. hostmaster.retail.fidelity.com. 2004060332 10800 3600 604800 60
> > 
> > ;; Query time: 25 msec
> > ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)
> > ;; WHEN: Fri Jun  4 13:01:26 2004
> > ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 148
> > 
> > % nslookup myfidelity.members.fidelity.com
> > Server:         192.168.0.1
> > Address:        192.168.0.1#53
> > 
> > ** server can't find myfidelity.members.fidelity.com: NXDOMAIN
> > 
> > Oh, and I forgot to mention that every now and then nslookup will return an address for myfidelity.members.fidelity.com,
> > but that is not the typical case.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > Regards,
> > Allen
> > 
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> what's your /etc/resolv.conf look like?
> 
% cat /etc/resolv.conf
; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
nameserver 192.168.0.1