"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just spent a couple of hours diagnosing a DNS lookup problem, but I > have no clue what's causing the problem. If I do a > > host junker.whatever.gov > > it's trying to do a lookup over the loopback interface. This times out > eventually. If I do a > > host junker.whatever.gov 134.xxx.xxx.xxx > > where 134.xxx.xxx.xxx is our local DNS server everything works > fine. The request goes out over the eth0 interface and immediately > returns a valid IP for the given name. > > Does anyone know why it's trying to send the request over the loopback > interface if I don't specify the IP address of a DNS server? > /etc/resolv.conf looks fine, it has a "domain whatever.gov" line and > then our two primary DNS servers. Looking at strace output of > "host junker.whatever.gov" it seems to be reading /etc/resolv.conf > > Every other network transaction works fine as long as I specify an IP > address, including routing correctly. I'm stumped!!
Well, it never fails to amaze me how I can stare at something for an hour and not see the obvious. In /etc/resolv.conf "nameserver" was misspelled "nameservr". I looked at that file dozens of times and only when I did a diff of the /etc directory with that of a working system did the problem slap me in the face. Man I'm a dumbass sometimes! Sorry for the waste of space on the mailing list. Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
