hmmmm.... I can't remember if I tried that or not..... I think so.. but I'll confirm my results tonight (after the meeting). Thanks.
Shawn -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Weird name resolution troubles and IPCop 1.3.0 Out of curiosity, can you ping the DNS servers when you are recieving these errors? kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Grover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 10:15 AM Subject: RE: (clug-talk) Weird name resolution troubles and IPCop 1.3.0 > Well, adding the other name servers to my resolv.conf file didn't resolve > the issue. It appears that I loose name resolution after a period of time > (somewhere around 5 - 15 minutes). I'll do more digging over the next few > days. > > Shawn > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 2:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: (clug-talk) Weird name resolution troubles and IPCop 1.3.0 > > > The RED interface on the IPCop box is using DHCP. All other interfaces on > my network are static. > I've added the other IP addresses mentioned in the other responses to my > message, so we'll see how that goes. > > Thanks for the responses. > > Shawn > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 9:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Weird name resolution troubles and IPCop 1.3.0 > > > If you're getting DHCP from IPcop, it will be caching DNS info for you. So > I'd start by checking that it isn't affected first. > > Next, is the Gentoo box recieving a dhcp address? Is it also recieving DNS > from the DHCP server? > > I'd start by hardcoding the address and DNS settings. If that doesn't work, > then try using a different DNS server (24.71.223.145 is SHAW, and it'll work > fine for you). > > Kev. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shawn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CLUG (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 12:30 AM > Subject: (clug-talk) Weird name resolution troubles and IPCop 1.3.0 > > > > I'm seeing some weird things going on with my network. > > > > I have two computers behind an IPCop firewall. One of the computers is my > > W2K workstation - it has no problems doing name resolution and browsing > the > > web. The other computer is my Gentoo server and it will periodically > refuse > > to resolve names. It does this when I'm trying to install packages > > sometimes, or even just trying to ping a remote server. > > > > I've just finished checking and reinstalling the IPCop firewall - and saw > > the symptoms appear again immediately (ping www.google.ca failed to > > resolve). However, a few minutes later, it's resolving with no problems. > > The obvious assumption is that my server isn't setup right. But I've just > > checked it's hosts file, and resolv.conf file - hosts has entries for my > > local computers, and resolv.conf has entries for my name servers (well, > > Telus' servers). Should I not have my firewall computer in the > resolv.conf > > file? Would that be the cause of this sort of trouble? I've also checked > > the default gateway, and it's set correctly. > > > > Has anyone else running IPCop seen the same sort of behaviour? > > > > Thanks for any tips. > > > > Shawn > > > > > > > > > >
