I can't believe more people haven't run into this. It seems like such a
glaring problem. I mean, i didn't change any configuration; just let
Redhat's install do the work and still got the same problem.
-----Original Message-----
From: Nitebirdz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 7:10 PM
To: Redhat List (E-mail)
Subject: Re: DNS client
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Jeff Graves wrote:
> I think i have it narrowed down now. I installed a new RH6.2 machine. Was
> having trouble with the network (when i'd ping i'd get segmentation
faults).
> After close examination, i think it has something to do with dns client
> config. I can ping any numeric address using ping -n. If i try to ping
> anything without the -n not in my subnet for example my ISP's DNS servers
I
> get a segementation fault. I changed resolv.conf to point to our
> caching/forwarding nameservers but got same problem. If i do a ping
> www.redhat.com or the like i get unknown host but i can do an nslookup on
> any server. Traceroute works but only with the -n option otherwise i get a
> segementation fault. And i can telnet to any IP. I did two fresh installs
on
> the machine and I even tried taking one of my 6.2 test machines and
throwing
> it on the internet to see if it was hardware related but same problem. All
i
> can figure, is that somehow DNS is just not working. Has anyone got any
type
> of 6.2 server running? I can't figure this out for the life of me.
>
Well, I've had a similarly "interesting" experience with 6.1. I can ping
IPs, but the host just fails to resolve domain names through my ISP's DNS
servers... even though they are perfectly reachable. The only way for me
to "fix" it is to perform a nslookup forcing the server:
nslookup www.yahoo.com -204.147.80.1
...where the IP is my ISP's primary DNS server. After that, everything
seems to work. Weird, eh?
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