On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 18:24 +1100, Tim Long wrote: > I recently upgraded my work computer to Fedora 12 and I am having a > weird DNS issue for an internal website in my organization. > > Performing a dig/nslookup for the web site returns a IP address but > trying to contact via a web browser/wget/telnet fails with a DNS error > (the actually web site and IP numbers are scrubbed) > ----- > ~]$ nslookup www.site.com > Server: ###.###.###.### > Address: ###.###.###.####53 > > Non-authoritative answer: > Name: www.site.com > Address: ***.***.***.*** > > ~]$ telnet www.site.com 80 > telnet: www.site.com: Temporary failure in name resolution > www.site.com: Host name lookup failure Wild guess: Look at your resolv.conf files. But, with the amount of blanking out of details in your reports, they're next to useless for anyone to diagnose anything with. Have a look at your message headers, if you see the same addresses as you've been hiding, then there's no point hiding them. Post your error reports with the real addresses showing. > work around that has been found is to run dnsmasq on the Fedora > workstations. Isn't that the kludge suggested for IPv6 problems? (I can't remember.) If so, look into either getting IPv6 working properly, or *completely* disabled. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines