Can't fix resolver

[Brad Knowles]

At 2:19 AM -0600 6/3/01, Mike Diehl wrote:

>  I have a linux box and a new DSL link.  I am able to ping internet hosts
>  by IP address.  I can ping them if I have an entry for them in
>  /etc/hosts.
>  I have turned off my local DNS server for now.
>
>  However, I can't resolve names.  I've tried ping, nslookup and dig.
>
>  The queries are getting out to the server; and replies are coming back,
>  according to tcpdump.  But dig reports that the connection timed out.

	Sounds like a firewall problem.  Try turning on your local 
nameserver again, make sure it's caching, and make sure that it's 
only using port 53 for the source port for queries.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

/*        efdtt.c  Author:  Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net>          */
/*       Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody         */
/*     Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers        */
/*                                                                      */
/*     Usage is:  cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob        */
/*   where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key    */

dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}'