On Sunday 19 February 2006 16:59, Steven W. Orr wrote: >On Sunday, Feb 19th 2006 at 15:40 -0600, quoth Les Mikesell: > >=>On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:56, Steven W. Orr wrote: >=>> I have a weird problem. >=>> >=>> 526 > hostname >=>> saturn.syslang.net >=>> 527 > I applied dig @207.172.3.8 saturn.syslang.net and got this: ; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> @207.172.3.8 saturn.syslang.net ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5316 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;saturn.syslang.net. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: saturn.syslang.net. 300 IN A 207.172.210.41 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: syslang.net. 300 IN NS ns3.zoneedit.com. syslang.net. 300 IN NS ns4.zoneedit.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns3.zoneedit.com. 698 IN A 66.180.174.61 ns4.zoneedit.com. 1097 IN A 216.98.150.236 ;; Query time: 326 msec ;; SERVER: 207.172.3.8#53(207.172.3.8) ;; WHEN: Sun Feb 19 23:22:18 2006 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 150 So it looks like its working from here. Purchance a firewall or tcpwrappers rule is getting in the way? >=>> But, ... >=>> >=>> 527> perl -MNet::Domain -e 'print Net::Domain::hostfqdn(), "\n"' >=>> saturn.com >=>> >=>> And it takes almost 30 seconds to come back. (The above example is > what I =>> did to reduce the bigger problem which caused me to notice > this to the =>> smallest case.) >=> >=>Look at /etc/resolv.conf. Is the first nameserver mentioned >=>there working? (Try 'dig @ip_number domain_to_look_up' to >=>test it). > >[root@saturn ~]# cat /etc/resolv.conf >; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script >search cable.rcn.com >nameserver 207.172.3.8 >nameserver 207.172.3.9 >[root@saturn ~]# > >I don't own my resolv.conf, that comes to me from my cablemodem > provider via dhcp. They don't know anything about either saturn or > syslang.net > >-- >Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things > have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's > license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by > zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't > a hypothetical question? >steveo at syslang.net -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
