Not able to resolve external names

John Ross john.ross at informix.com
Tue Nov 6 20:36:01 UTC 2001


DNS server on the box?  Yes.  Running?  Yes.
  
Pretty much ruled out firewall issues.  As I have already talked on the
phone with uunet.

Dig'ing @127.0.0.1 also produces a timeout.

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John Ross 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Kjorling [mailto:michael at kjorling.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 2:06 PM
> > To: BIND-Users
> > Subject: RE: Not able to resolve external names
> > 
> > 
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> > Is a DNS server running on the box? Are there any firewall issues?
> > What happens if you dig @127.0.0.1?
> > 
> > Most likely obvious questions, but I think worth asking anyway. They
> > have been my gotchas a few times, not only with DNS.
> > 
> > 
> > Michael Kjörling
> > 
> > 
> > On Nov 6 2001 14:01 -0600, John Ross wrote:
> > 
> > > 1) What if it times out?  What does that mean? (well, 
> > besides that fact that
> > > it isn't working :-( )
> > >
> > > Server-in-question#./dig www.yahoo.com a
> > >
> > > ; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> www.yahoo.com a
> > > ;; res_send to server default -- 0.0.0.0: Connection timed out
> > >
> > >
> > > If I specify a root name server by IP address @198.41.0.4
> > > (A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET), or one of the DNS servers at my site, 
> > I get what you
> > > would expect.
> > >
> > > I have verified both with traceroute through port 53, and 
> > with uunet that
> > > port 53 is not blocked at the firewall.  This is really 
> > perplexing to me.  I
> > > am obviously not an expert, but I have never seen anything 
> > like this where I
> > > have no clue as to what the problem is.
> > >
> > > John
> > 
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