This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm getting weird DNS timeouts. The /etc/resolv.conf file on my >machine points to the ADSL modem, 192.168.1.1. > > machine > host planet.linux.org.au 192.168.1.1 > Using domain server: > Name: 192.168.1.1 > Address: 192.168.1.1#53 > Aliases: > > planet.linux.org.au has address 221.133.213.94 > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > >If I telnet into the modem and grab the /etc/resolv.conf file from >that and use the two nameservers lsited there, I get no connection >time outs. > >Can anybody explain that?
How's your routing table looking? Use dig instead of host, and trace the path to see which of the no servers can't be reached: dig +trace @192.168.1.1 planet.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
