On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 01:04:33PM -0400, Allen Winter wrote: > Howdy, > > I am having a strange issue on my new Fedora Core 2 install with DNS. > > I have three systems connected to ADSL via a Netgear WGR214v2 Router, > with one running Redhat 9, one running FC1, and the other my new FC2 system. > > The Redhat system is running dhcpcd and has no problem getting addresses. > The FC1 system is running dhclient and had no problem getting addresses. > > The new FC2 system is also running dhclient and fails to get addresses for only > a *few* names I've encountered so far. And dig will give me an answer for those > names, but nslookup will fail. I have looked up everything I know and compared > the FC1 and FC2 systems and they look to be configured the same. > A few possibilities: 1. hardware problems . does ifconfig report any corrupted package? . does it work with another ethernet controller? 2. routing problems . ecn shouldn't be a problem, as DNS uses UDP for simple queries . what's in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range for each system? . what shows in tcpdump? 3. if all fails, you could still run a caching named on your network and use that instead. Regards, Luciano Rocha -- Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
