On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>>   My assumption is the issue is at the other side's DNS server. Am 
>> I incorrect in this assumption? Is there anything I can do to 
>> resolve this issue from my desk?
>
>   This might be the cause:
>
> [rshepard@salmo ~]$ su -c 'host leafe.com'
> Password:
> bash: /usr/bin/host: cannot execute binary file
>
>   Why might this happen? The file permissions are 755:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 77888 2011-08-12 11:13 /usr/bin/host*

Can you run host under your rshepard username? (That is, without su.)

What does "file /usr/bin/host" say?

How about "ldd /usr/bin/host"? Does the output look similar to, say, 
"ldd /usr/bin/dig"?

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Paul Heinlein <> heinl...@madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/
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