Quoting Bill Kendrick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I ran a 'ping sonic.net' (Sonic is our DSL provider), and noticed this: > > ... > 64 bytes from www.sonic.net (209.204.190.64): icmp_seq=298 ttl=250 time=18.7 > ms > 64 bytes from www.sonic.net (209.204.190.64): icmp_seq=299 ttl=250 time=19.0 > ms > 64 bytes from 209.204.190.64: icmp_seq=300 ttl=250 time=17.1 ms > 64 bytes from 209.204.190.64: icmp_seq=301 ttl=250 time=17.4 ms > 64 bytes from www.sonic.net (209.204.190.64): icmp_seq=302 ttl=250 time=18.4 > ms > 64 bytes from www.sonic.net (209.204.190.64): icmp_seq=303 ttl=250 time=17.2 > ms > ...
Wow, that's pretty weird (and no, I haven't seen that before, including on my Xubuntu laptop). But: I notice that your two "nameserver" IPs in /etc/resolv.conf are a customer-facing nameserver at Sonic.net (NS1.SONIC.NET) and an IP at Sprintlink that has no reverse DNS (no FQDN that points to it). I have a very strong hunch that therein is your problem. I suspect you have the IP address (208.2.224.33) miscopied, or missing a digit, or something, because, you see, the IP you specified turns out, for whatever reason, to be not doing DNS at all: $ dig linuxmafia.com @208.2.224.33 ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> linuxmafia.com @208.2.224.33 ; (1 server found) ;; global options: printcmd ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached $ So, I suspect that a minimal fix would be to substitute for 208.2.224.33 some different nameserver IP that's network-nearby and verified to be functional. Like, for example, NS2.SONIC.NET. Which, oddly, turns out to be IP 208.201.224.33. ;-> (I suspect somehow the second set of digits somehow got mangled from the correct "201" to "2". There's your problem.) Just as an afterthought, if you want to go beyond the _minimal_ fix, you might want to run your own caching nameserver right on your workstation, and change /etc/resolv.conf to have "nameserver 127.0.0.1" instead of the existing pair (which you could comment out). The pdnsd caching-only nameserver package would be pretty good for that purpose, and is dead-simple -- and you will suddenly have local resolution of DNS names, rather than having to query them across your DSL. Just a thought. -- Cheers, Peter G. Neumann: "Mars has been a tough target." Rick Moen Harlan Rosenthal: "That's because the Martians keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] shooting things down." RISKS Digest, v. 20, #59&60 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
