[ale] DNS issues

[Christopher Bergeron]

Did you include a period after your domain in your named.conf file and your
internal networks' domain entries?  If you don't include a trailing dot (ie,
domain.com. ) it will double up and add it to a resolution.

It's a long-shot, but it's a shot;
-CB


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Stoll [mailto:kevinostoll at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 7:59 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] DNS issues
>
>
> I have an interesting problem with DNS on my home network. Set up is Linux
> box acting as router/gateway to internet through a DSL connection
> with a win
> 98 machine networked. I am using Roaring Penguin/pppoe to connect. On the
> linux machine I have the three DNS servers listed by IP address
> and then the
> same three by domain name. When I first connect to the internet using the
> Roaring Penguin 'adsl-start' command I can only reach domains
> from the linux
> machine. It is not until I ping a few IP addresses that the networked
> machine understand how to find web sites and even after that I still have
> trouble reaching some hosts.
>
> An example would be, I can get to yahoo.com but I can't get to
> resumes.yahoo.com. OR I can get to my own web site if I only type in
> kevinstoll.org but if I try to get to a file it doesn't seem to understand
> how to resolve it. At any rate, what I am trying to say is that sometimes
> the networked machine can resolve a host yet at other times it can not. I
> have not yet determined the pattern by which it does this. The
> only pattern
> that I have found, although it makes no sense, is that if there
> is anything
> before or after the root domain, as in www.yahoo.com instead of yahoo.com,
> the networked machine will not resolve but even then there are a few
> instances where that pattern is not true.
>
> SIGH........
>
> Thanks for your help in advance.
>
>
> Kevin O'Neill Stoll
> http://kevinstoll.org/
> (770) 569-7251
>
>
>
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