On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:55:55 +0100, Mariusz PÄkala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I emerged the bind-tools package and had a play with dig and nslookup. > > To further add to the intrigue of this bizarre problem - I was surprised > > to find that both dig and nslookup (like ping) correctly resolve > > addresses - whereas wget and lynx still stubbornly insist that sites not > > recently accessed by another LAN host - or from Gentoo with ping, dig or > > nslookup all resolve to 1.0.0.0! > > I would try to scan /etc/hosts - maybe there is something strange? > Probably you already did that... :-) > Something in /etc/networks ? > Some PROXY settings are in effect? > Wget and lynx are using some library that has troubles? > > > I'm still suspicious that this is something to do with IPV6 - which > > would explain why Windows users have no problem (as none of the Windows > > DNS tools support IPV6) - though I can't explain why using emegre to > > rebuild with USE set to "-ipv6" in make.conf makes no difference... I > > also wonder if the whole 1.0.0.0 problem may be explained by some poor > > choice I made when configuring my 2.6 kernel... even though I thought > > I'd been pretty restrained and only enabled what to me seemed to be the > > obvious options. > > If you can, try to scan the network traffic - ideally, do it from > two boxes - the machine that has problems, and from an external one - to see > what data goes physically on-the-wire (in case the kernel does > something bad) > > Using 'tcpdump' or 'ethereal' you should be able to see the DNS queries and > responses, and maybe that will give some enlightment? > > Strange and interesting. ;-) > Good luck! > > > Now maybe I'm off base here but can you take the router out of the system and then see how your gentoo box works. Might be able to tell if it is the router or something about the gentoo box to troubleshoot.
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