On Monday 24 January 2005 16:55, Mariusz PÄkala 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?
That would be consistent. So I'd say: No. > Probably you already did that... :-) > Something in /etc/networks ? Same here. > Some PROXY settings are in effect? Proxy settings in wget and linx don't effect DNS lookups. > Wget and lynx are using some library that has troubles? Could be but not the resolver library because that is the same for all apps. > > > 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? This is, indeed, good advice. Filter on DNS traffic and compare queries from wget to those of working applications. Same for for replies. Uwe -- Alternative phrasing of the First Law of Thermodynamics: If you eat it, and you don't burn it off, you'll sit on it. http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- [email protected] mailing list
