On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Carlos Mora wrote: > Joe, > > Thanks for your reply... > > > > >>It looks like the problem is that the lookups are going out UDP. (from a > >>netstat -a) but the responses are not coming back. At least not with the > >>address that is being looked up. The address of the authoritative > >nameserver > >>is what gets returned. (from tehtereal). > >> > >> > >Yes, that sounds correct - your system should then look it up using the > >authoritative address. > > It is not looking it up at this point. It times out and fails. I have gone > as far as to change the resolv.conf nameserver entries to include the IP > multiple times and it still times out. It could be that you just can't reach the DNS server, in question, or are being blocked. What happens if you issue "traceroute -n ip.of.dns.server"? -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list