This might sound wierd, but you might try putting the local loopback address
in your /ete/resolve.conf file. Ei:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
I've found that there are some programs, when run on the DNS server, that will
not use DNS correctly unless you do. I think one of those is telnet.
<shrug>
"Gaurav Agarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi all,
> i just installed red hat linux 6.0 on my system ...
>
> now i was trying to configure the caching-only dns.
> ( as it takes quite long to get the prompt when i telnet from other machine
> on the network )
>
> for that i edited the /etc/named.conf file and added
>
> zone "5.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
> type master;
> file "named.192.168.5";
> };
>
> then i created the file /var/named/named.192.168.5
> and put in the related hostname and domain name etc ..
>
> finally i restarted the named : /etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart
>
> still when i telnet 192.168.5.3 from my windows machine on the network, it
> takes over 60 secounds to show the prompy
>
>
> please guide me as to how to correct this...
> thanks a tonne,
> regards,
> gaurav
>
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