you could try running some network diagnostics to see what is exactly happenning on the network - ie what dns requests are actually being made.
i think tcpdump/ethereal may help with that. as an forst step though, what happenns if you ping from the faxserver box using just a host name as opposed to a fqdn. ie is it any diffferent doing: ping mail ping mail.chchcasino.local On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 15:05:20 +1300 David Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Answer for Rex: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> cat /etc/nsswitch.conf |grep ^hosts > hosts: files dns > > > Answer for Steve: > > I set the reply-to before posting :-) > > Adding 'domain chchcasino.local' to /etc/resolv.conf doesn't help. > > Answer for Craig: > > Turning VerifyReverseMapping off doesn't fix the DNS problems. It > just stops sshd from doing reverse lookups. There will still be > problems with other services that try to do lookups. > > Fidelio and Admin are Novell servers. Every other PC on the network > can do lookups against these servers and have done for years. This > problem is only happening on the fax server. > > lo is up. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> /sbin/ifconfig > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8B:D5:38:F2 > inet addr:192.168.1.14 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::250:8bff:fed5:38f2/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:1833804 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:199268 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:156368011 (149.1 Mb) TX bytes:17527914 (16.7 Mb) > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:138 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:8665 (8.4 Kb) TX bytes:8665 (8.4 Kb) > > > -- > Later > > David Kirk -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
