RE: DNS problems from the twilight zone

2003-09-05 Thread Jason Staudenmayer
Sounds like a bad routing table. Like the resolve file is set right but the return route for the packets is bad. Had something similar with a win2k box and Pcanywhere. It would receive the first packet but couldn't return them. -Original Message- From: Graham Leggett [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: DNS problems from the twilight zone

2003-09-05 Thread Graham Leggett
Jason Staudenmayer wrote: Sounds like a bad routing table. Like the resolve file is set right but the return route for the packets is bad. Had something similar with a win2k box and Pcanywhere. It would receive the first packet but couldn't return them. A bad routing table on this Redhat v9 box,

Re: DNS problems from the twilight zone

2003-09-05 Thread David Hart
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 09:10, Graham Leggett wrote: Hi all, I have a Redhat v9 box that is incapable of resolving certain specific DNS addresses, but it can resolve others. Addresses that work: www.google.com www.is.co.za www.anazi.co.za I would think that your problem is with your NS

Re: DNS problems from the twilight zone

2003-09-05 Thread Graham Leggett
David Hart wrote: I would think that your problem is with your NS provider (The Internet Solution). Have you tried a caching name server with the ISP as backup? I have tried about 5 or 6 different nameservers, some on the ISP's network, some on external networks. As a control, I have run the

Re: DNS problems from the twilight zone

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Phillips
At 01:32 6/09/2003, you wrote: Jason Staudenmayer wrote: Sounds like a bad routing table. Like the resolve file is set right but the return route for the packets is bad. Had something similar with a win2k box and Pcanywhere. It would receive the first packet but couldn't return them. A bad

Re: DNS problems from the twilight zone

2003-09-05 Thread David Hart
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 09:42, Graham Leggett wrote: David Hart wrote: I would think that your problem is with your NS provider (The Internet Solution). Have you tried a caching name server with the ISP as backup? I have tried about 5 or 6 different nameservers, some on the ISP's

Re: DNS problems from the twilight zone

2003-09-05 Thread Graham Leggett
Steve Phillips wrote: Anybody heard of Akadns before? Anyone know why a Redhat v9 box cannot resolve their queries specifically? This is Akamai - a world wide distributed web system that runs primarily via DNS and some fancy layer4 routing. I figured that it might be Akamai, but whois linked

Re: DNS problems from the twilight zone

2003-09-05 Thread Steve Phillips
At 02:10 6/09/2003, you wrote: Steve Phillips wrote: Anybody heard of Akadns before? Anyone know why a Redhat v9 box cannot resolve their queries specifically? This is Akamai - a world wide distributed web system that runs primarily via DNS and some fancy layer4 routing. I figured that it might