DNS problems with telnet/ftp/whois

[Mark Blackman]

hmm. does sound mysterious. The only two things I can offer are

1) Do you have anything "odd" in your /etc/hosts file?
2) try tcpdump -vv on the right interface to see what look-ups the 
   bind daemon is trying.

- Mark

> I'm having a problem with DNS lookups running on my 4.3-STABLE build with
> bind 8.2.3....
> 
> My v. small toy network at home is running the FreeBSD box as a PPP dialup
> router with local primary DNS. Bind forwards its requests to ntlworld DNS
> servers.  All is happy on the network - ie my Windows boxes can resolve
> addresses using http, telnet, ftp, ping, etc.
> 
> However, when I try to use telnet, ftp or whois on the FreeBSD terminal I
> always get error messages like:
> 
>     cuthbert# ftp dsftp.dial.pipex.com
>     ftp: dsftp.dial.pipex.com: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution
> 
> Nslookup, Host, Dig and Ping all work fine:
> 
>     cuthbert# nslookup dsftp.dial.pipex.com
>     Server:  cuthbert.lockside-court.co.uk
>     Address:  192.168.1.1
> 
>     Non-authoritative answer:
>     Name:    tornado.dial.pipex.net
>     Address:  158.43.192.19
>     Aliases:  dsftp.dial.pipex.com
> 
> 
> Has anyone got any clues why this is happening?  I've searched around on the
> web / newsgroups and no one seems to give a successful answer.
> 
> My named.conf is:
> 
>     # named.conf for cuthbert.lockside-court.co.uk
>     # dms / 07.02.2001
>     #
> 
>     # dms / 01.06.2001 : change remote dns to ntlworld
>     options {
>         directory "/etc/namedb";
>         forward first;
>         forwarders {
>               194.168.4.100;
>               194.168.8.100;
>         };
>     };
> 
>     # dms / 17.04.2001 / added reference to local zone
>     zone "lockside-court.co.uk" in {
>              type master;
>              file "lockside-court.db";
>         };
> 
>     zone "1.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
>         type master;
>         file "lockside-court.rev";
>     };
> 
>     zone "." {
>          type hint;
>          file "named.root";
>     };
> 
>     zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
>          type master;
>          file "localhost.rev";
>     };
> 
> 
> My host.conf is:
> 
>     # host.conf for cuthbert.lockside-court.co.uk
>     # dms / 07.02.2001
>     #
> 
>     order hosts,bind
> 
> 
> Mr resolv.conf is:
> 
>     search   lockside-court.co.uk
>     nameserver 192.168.1.1
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sorry it's such a long mail - but any help would be appreciated!
> 
> Regards,
> Dan
> 
> 
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