On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 16:42 +0100, Paul Howarth wrote: > David Cary Hart wrote: > > This is occurring on the machine running bind. Bind running perfectly > > but bind-utils (host and dig) via ssh render this error message. There > > is absolutely nothing wrong with resolv.conf; nameserver localhost > > Does changing that to: > > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > improve things? Duh. Why didn't I think of that? > As usual, you are correct. I wonder why this worked fine in RH9 through FC3 but not in FC4. The "problem" is limited to the utils. Many thanks! -- Tired of spam? Do YOUR part: http://www.BoulderPledge.org * Eliminate Spam: http://www.TQMcube.com/spam_trap.htm * RBLDNSD HowTo: http://www.TQMcube.com/rbldnsd.htm * Multi-RBL Check: http://www.TQMcube.com/rblcheck.htm