From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: Urgent DNS problem. Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 12:53:17 -0400 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40E6E47D.5040006@gelm.net> References: Reply-To: chuck@gelm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Tony Gogoi Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Tony Gogoi wrote: > I believe our DNS server needs to be "refreshed". > > If I set DNS server to be internet service provider's DNS server, I can > resolve names to IP addresses. However, our primary and secondary DNS > server is down (does not resolve names to ip addresses). Is there any > command which would do it (maybe download fresh information from the > service provider's DNS server). We are not able to to receive mail as a > result of that... we also cannot surf the net if we set DNS server address > to our DNS server's ip addresses. > > Thanks. > > > Tony Gogoi > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Hi, Tony: Can you receive mail if you use the IP address of your mail server? I do not know who 'we' are, but I found four (4) DNS servers associated with hadar.cse.buffalo.edu where your email appears to have originated. Which name server(s) are you trying to use? Can you 'surf the net' by using IP addresses? Chuck p.s. I do not understand the urgency of your problem.