DNS problems
Paul Trippett
pjt at gmxuk.net
Tue Jul 11 11:58:29 BST 2000
Hi,
The problem is your querying the wrong name server the two servers you want to be querying are cache-1.ns.uk.demon.net
and cache-2.ns.uk.demon.net
Thanks
Paul Trippett
X-Demon Hostmaster
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> Hello all...
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> I have just upgraded my FreeBSD box at home to 4.0 Stable (following
> total failure of primary hard disk) and am experiencing something I
> have never seen before......
>
> The machine is setup to talk to Demon's nameservers via ADSL. The
> machine will resolve relay-1.mail.demon.net quite happily, but
> (seemingly) any request made to resolve anything which Demon is not
> authoratitve for, results in :
>
> can't resolve #hostname# - no address associated with name
>
>
> Now, if I query the Demon DNS servers from anywhere else, I have no
> issues.... they resolve as normal. If I ping the IP address of *any*
> host, I have no problems. Problem is specific to DNS resolution.
>
> I guess it's worth noting that I have yet to remove IPV6 support from
> the kernel.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
> Rgds,
>
> Guy
>
>
> Please include guyh at demon.net in the reply, as I'm not signed up to
> the user group on this address, and (for obvious reasons!) can't
> receive mail at home at the moment....
>
>
> </---
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> Senior Systems Administrator - Multi Platform Services
> Demon Internet - Thus PLC
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