DNS problems with telnet/ftp/whois

[Dan Sloane]

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Blackman <mark at blackmans.org>
To: Dan Sloane <mail at dansloane.co.uk>
Subject: Re: DNS problems with telnet/ftp/whois


>
> hmm. does sound mysterious. The only two things I can offer are
>
> 1) Do you have anything "odd" in your /etc/hosts file?

Nope - only thing there is a reference to localhost

> 2) try tcpdump -vv on the right interface to see what look-ups the
>    bind daemon is trying.

Looking at every using port 53 on the ppp interface 'tun0', I get nothing
whatsoever when I try and use telnet/ftp/whois. However, Ping gives:

cuthbert# tcpdump -vv -i tun0 port 53
tcpdump: listening on tun0
22:52:29.033843 62.252.176.162.1577 > 194.168.8.100.domain:  59705+ A?
www.friendsreunited.co.uk. (43) (ttl 64, id 12774)
22:52:29.232909 194.168.8.100.domain > 62.252.176.162.1577:  59705 q:
www.friendsreunited.co.uk. 10/3/3 www.friendsreunited.co.uk. A
217.148.32.190, www.friendsreunited.co.uk. (342) (DF) (ttl 249, id 50257)


Ta, Dan


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