Re: Unable to connect to DNS server

[Rob Hinst <rob hinst net>]

After you commented out the lines in your firewall configuration files, did
you restart iptables?

/etc/init.d/iptables stop
/etc/init.d/iptables start

-Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arvind Raman" <arvind_raman yahoo com>
To: <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:35 AM
Subject: Re: Unable to connect to DNS server


> Hi,
> I tried out what u all suggested and here are the
> results.
>
> #1. I pinged to my DNS server (This is sth that I has
> tried before)
> ping 202.54.6.35
> and I could send and receive packets.
>
> #2. I could connect to port 53 of my DNS server by
> issuing the following command
> telnet 202.54.6.35 53
>
> #3. However the last debugging stratergy failed. I
> could not use dig
> to trace the path to the DNS server. On issuing
> dig +trace 202.54.6.35
> the command exited out by saying that the connection
> could not be established because of time out.
>
> I then tried hacking my firewall confoiguration files
> (though it was an hack without much though in it). I
> tried commenting out all lines
> which had DENY in it. Things still didnt seem to work.
>
> Any further suggestions / leads ?
>
> Arvind
>
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