[rescue] Odd DNS problem with Solaris 8

Derrick Daugherty rescue at sunhelp.org
Sat Nov 10 15:39:23 CST 2001


It's rumored that around Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 10:17:37AM -0500
Steve Sandau <ssandau at bath.tmac.com> wrote:
> 
> This is on a home net with a local DNS box and a masquerading firewall.
> Whenever I have investigated the problem, the local DNS box has no
> difficulty locating the www server, but either the Sun can't ask nicely,
> or the DNS box isn't answering. Maybe I'll sniff the wire and see if I
> can identify (and appropriately punish) the offending machine.

Yes, if one of you would do a packet dump I'll see if it's a network
issue or software issue.  IE is the request not going out, is it a
malformed request, did dns not respond, is the browser sending proxied
requests even though you didn't ask it to etc etc.
^D



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