[Cialug] DNS Issues

[David Champion]

What does your /etc/resolv.conf look like?

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Stuart Thiessen wrote:
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> Turned off nscd and really nothing changed much (except it seems to read 
> /etc/hosts faster). It doesn't make sense that it is the firewall on the 
> email server or the firewall for our network.
> 
> Hmmm ..... ANy other ideas?
> 
> Stuart
> On Aug 23, 2005, at 17:16, Stuart Thiessen wrote:
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>> I ran route -n  and it shows that it is pointing to the firewall as 
>> the gateway.
>>
>> nscd has been running all along.  I hadn't encountered that program 
>> before so I just left it running.  I know enough to be dangerous but 
>> not enough to be an expert yet.  :)
>>
>> Hmmm .... I can stop nscd and see if that does anything.  route seems 
>> good.  I'm not sure what the problem can be.  I'd suspect our 
>> firewall, but no other computer on the network is having problems.  So 
>> ... Hmmm.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> On Aug 23, 2005, at 17:02, Paul Gray wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:48:34PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are you sure it's not a problem with ncsd? The Debian package info for
>>>> that says:
>>>>
>>>> "A daemon which handles passwd, group and host lookups for running
>>>> programs and caches the results for the next query. You should install
>>>> this package only if you use slow Services like LDAP, NIS or NIS+"
>>>>
>>>
>>> If nscd is running, you can stop it with "/etc/init.d/nscd stop"
>>> or invalidate the hosts with nscd -i hosts
>>>
>>> But, it sounds like the root of your problem isn't resolv.conf, but 
>>> rather the
>>> default route.
>>>
>>> What does "route -n" show?  does it point to the firewall as the default
>>> gateway?
>>>
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