[ale] RH8 "Temporary failure in name resolution"

[Dow Hurst]

If I remember correctly the resolver is now handled by nsd or the nscd 
daemon.  So you configure it with /etc/nsswitch.conf and start the 
daemon with an init script in /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d.
Dow


Kevin Krumwiede wrote:

>I upgraded my home network router to RH8.  Machines behind the router
>can resolve hostnames just fine (dhcpd on the router sets them up with
>my ISP's DNS servers... haven't set up a cacheing nameserver yet.) 
>However, programs on the router itself are not able to resolve
>hostnames, except for those in /etc/hosts.
>
>I do not think it is my firewall rules.  The first rules in the INPUT,
>OUTPUT, and FORWARD chains accept established/related packets, and I
>explicitly allowed access to the DNS servers in the OUTPUT chain. 
>Later, growing a bit frustrated, I changed all the chain policies to
>ACCEPT.  No love.  Then I added -j LOGDROP to the end of all of them to
>see what's going on.  Nothing was logged.  Apparently no attempt is
>being made to transmit packets to the nameserver.
>
>So I guess it's a problem with my resolver configuration.
>/etc/resolv.conf contains a 'search' statement with what I guess is the
>hostname my ISP has assigned me, and two 'nameserver' statements for the
>ISP's nameservers.  /etc/host.conf contains 'order hosts,bind'.  
>
>Anything else I should be looking at?
>
>Krum
>
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