[rescue] Odd DNS problem with Solaris 8

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:45:10PM -0500, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> For example, I'll visit www.foo.com, page loads great, if I click on the link
> to www.foo.com/newds/ I get the DNS error 60% of the time. this is very
> annoying while I am surfing eBay or one of the message boards for model
> airplanes where you spend a lot of time within a specific site.
> I have tried using different nameservers, I have checked my nsswitch.conf file
> what else may I be missing? The OS is also patched to ~sept 15 or so's patch
> level.

Get rid of nscd:

/etc/rc2.d/S76nscd stop
mv /etc/rc2.d/S76nscd /etc/rc2.d/s76nscd

Restart your browser.

Also, try installing a local caching nameserver on *your* machine.

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX