BIND only resolves hostname on the second attempt

[Scott Haneda]

on 10/28/04 6:16 AM, Brian Kendig at brian at enchanter.net wrote:

> A couple of days ago, my DNS server started behaving oddly: the first
> time I try to visit a web site, my browser tells me the server
> couldn't be found; if I then go to the same URL a second time, it
> works.
> 
> My server is Mac OS X 10.3.5 running BIND 9.2.2. My clients are all
> Macs, running the Safari web browser, but the problem comes up with
> almost anything that tries to resolve hostnames; the game Halo, for
> example, gives me a "host not found" error the first time I try to
> connect to a network game, but connects on the second attempt. Just
> about the only thing which works consistently on the first try is
> running 'host' from a command line (as in, 'host www.cnn.com' never
> complains it can't find the site).
> 
> I ran named at debugging level 2 and tried a query which failed, then
> I tried it at debugging level 3 and tried another failed query, and I
> posted the logs at 'http://www.enchanter.net/bind-log.txt' (I won't
> copy them here, because the stuff logged by -d 3 is long). A few times
> in the second example when it can't find 'www.microsoft.com', I see it
> append my domain '.enchanter.net' to the end and try that; I assume
> this is Safari seeing if the hostname exists locally.
> 
> Can anyone please help me figure out what's going wrong, and how to
> fix it? What have I misconfigured?


Join the group, I think you are now person number 4 to have this happen in
the past few days, if you search the men and mice archive for subject "
Problems resolving" you can find mine as well as others posts.
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