R: unable to resolve things...

["David Galligani" <davidgalligani@es.luxottica.com>]

Can you send us
 the files of named  (/etc/named.conf  and  /var/named/* )?

ciao

david
----- Original Message -----
From: James <james@piku.org.uk>
To: <linux-admin@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 3:41 PM
Subject: unable to resolve things...


> I've just set this Linux machine up to connect to an Alcatel ADSL router
> using dhcpcd (the router is configured for DHCP spoofing). eth0 has now
> been given a working IP address, and I can ping IP addresses of places
> like google.
>
> However, I can't ping "www.google.com" or any other names. They won't
> resolve.
>
> BUT if I type 'nslookup' I can talk to a DNS and resolve them manually,
> however nothing else seems to be able to look addresses up except
> nslookup.
>
> This machine is routing data for a LAN, and runs named. Other machines
> that have this Linux box set as their DNS server can resolve things
> though and they can browse the web.
>
> My resolv.conf contains:
>
> ---
> search rda.lan
> nameserver 10.0.0.5
> ---
>
> (10.0.0.5 is this machine's internal IP)
>
> and nsswitch.conf contains:
>
> ---
> hosts:  dns files
> networks:       files dns
> ---
>
> and I've restarted inetd for fun.
>
> This machine is configured to route traffic using ipfwadm.
>
> ifconfig contains:
>
> ---
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:DA:50:01:FB
>           inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Bcast:xx.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:57415 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
>           TX packets:73421 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:4286 txqueuelen:100
>           Interrupt:9 Base address:0xfc00
>
> eth0:1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:DA:50:01:FB
>           inet addr:10.0.0.5  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           Interrupt:9 Base address:0xfc00
>
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
>           RX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:88 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> ---
>
> it's only got one network card in it, so I am using aliased IPs to make it
> talk to the local lan too.
>
> What obvious thing have I not done?
>
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