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...
> 
> 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....
> 
> 
> </---
> Guy Harper <guyh at demon.net>
> Senior Systems Administrator - Multi Platform Services
> Demon Internet - Thus PLC
> Tel : 0208 371 1249
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> of careful development."
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