Networking Troubles

[Kareem Shehata]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of William
> O'Higgins Witteman
> Sent: Friday 14 September 2007 10:31
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Networking Troubles
> 
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 08:35:06AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:44:54PM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman
> wrote:
> >> resolv.conf:
> >> nameserver 192.168.1.1
> >> search gotdns.org
> >
> >Well since you run your own DNS server, maybe it is misconfigured or
> >having issues contacting root servers.  Or maybe it should just be
> >configured with your ISP's nameservers as forwarders which tends to give
> >much faster results than bothering the root servers.
> 
> That could be a problem - I am not running a DNS server - I hope to pass
> DNS queries to the router (a Linksys WRT54).  The router is not the
> problem, because every other machine on the network is hunky dory.

And the other machines are setup the same way, with the DNS entry pointing
to the router?  (if they're automatically configured, double check that this
is the DNS setting)

At this point it doesn't make much sense.  If configured the same way, it
should work exactly the same as all of the other machines.  One last
question: are you running a DNS server on this box?  Sometimes, a locally
running DNS server can cause issues.  I also remember qmail behaving very
strangely with this (actually, I can't remember whether it wouldn't work
with a local DNS server or without one, I just remember it being odd).

-kms


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