Les Mikesell wrote: > carlopmart wrote: >>>>>>> Thanks lars. Correctly, firewall could be the problem, but it isn't. Because >>>>>> Ubuntu and Windows 2003/2008 doesn't have problems with it ... and resolves >>>>>> perfectly ... And I don't have configured this firewall to accept dns queries >>>>>> originating from source port 53 ... >>>>>> >>>>> What does 'dig' show about your access to the root servers without >>>>> forwarders and with and without forcing the query-source port? Compare >>>>> it to the Ubuntu system. Maybe there's something wrong with the root >>>>> hints file - or maybe your border firewall is blocking all udp to this >>>>> box but permitting it to the DNS servers that work. >>>>> >>>> Thanks Les, but I have checked it before post this problem. Ubuntu and CentOS >>>> have the same file to do querys to root servers ... >>> And the results of 'dig' on each? >>> >>>> I have find a temporary solution: reduce the MTU on CentOS server (1440) ...I >>>> need to investigate why centOS loses some packages and ubuntu doesn't .... >>> Are you routing through tunnels? >>> >>> >> No, all hosts (firewall and CentOS DNS server) are connected to GByte network. > > That's not where the problem is. Since you are working with forwarding > on, the problem has to be when you try to go directly to the internet > over UDP so it would be at the firewall or border router. When DNS > fails, it will retry with TCP and that might be why it eventually works. That's not possible, because firewall only permits DNS querys over UDP ... > Is there anything in the path to the internet that needs a lower MTU > (perhaps a DNS line running PPOE)? Or do you have jumbo packets enabled > on your Gig NIC? No, but firewalls have a mtu configured with 1450 on external interfaces ... And if you do need a small MTU, do you have firewalls > blocking the ICMP messages that are required to discover that automatically? Yes, ICMP messages are blocked on firewall, but are blocked for all hosts: centos dns servers, ubuntu servers, windows servers ... i don't understand why using Ubuntu or windows servers to resolve names works ok and with centos (and with either rhel5. I have just check it) doesn't ... > -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos