Not able to resolve external names

[Michael Kjorling]

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Is a DNS server running on the box? Are there any firewall issues?
What happens if you dig @127.0.0.1?

Most likely obvious questions, but I think worth asking anyway. They
have been my gotchas a few times, not only with DNS.


Michael Kjörling


On Nov 6 2001 14:01 -0600, John Ross wrote:

> 1) What if it times out?  What does that mean? (well, besides that fact that
> it isn't working :-( )
>
> Server-in-question#./dig www.yahoo.com a
>
> ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> www.yahoo.com a
> ;; res_send to server default -- 0.0.0.0: Connection timed out
>
>
> If I specify a root name server by IP address @198.41.0.4
> (A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET), or one of the DNS servers at my site, I get what you
> would expect.
>
> I have verified both with traceroute through port 53, and with uunet that
> port 53 is not blocked at the firewall.  This is really perplexing to me.  I
> am obviously not an expert, but I have never seen anything like this where I
> have no clue as to what the problem is.
>
> John

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