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Antoniu-George SAVU wrote: > Hey, > A good starting point in solving your problem is to send all the DNS > config files and also dumps from the folowing commands: > > SITE A dump > route > ifconfig > > SITE B dump > route > ifconfig Hi, Here is the requested info : Output of 'route' on Box A : Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 204.146.249.241 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 sl0 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 17 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 13 lo default 204.146.249.241 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 1 sl0 Output of 'ifconfig' on Box A : lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:364 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:364 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:15:E3:9E inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:20601 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:21459 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Interrupt:10 Base address:0x1200 sl0 Link encap:VJ Serial Line IP inet addr:129.37.118.31 P-t-P:204.146.249.241 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1006 Metric:1 RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 compressed:0 TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 compressed:0 /etc/hosts on Box A : 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 192.168.0.1 marvin marvin.local.com The address of the SLIP interface is dynamically assigned. Output of 'route' on Box B : Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 1 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 1 lo default marvin 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 9 eth0 Output of 'ifconfig' on Box B : lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 eth0 Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:C0:E2:4A:13 inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:18861 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:18332 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x290 Memory:d0000-d2000 /etc/hosts on Box B : 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 192.168.0.2 chief chief.local.com 192.168.0.1 marvin marvin.local.com Also, I received another reply where the replier assumed I was running bind-4. I am running bind-8. On Box B, here is /etc/named.conf : // Config file for caching only name server options { directory "/var/named"; // query-source address * port 53 }; zone "." { type hint; file "root.hints"; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "pz/127.0.0"; }; On Box B, here is /var/named/root.hints : \&. 6D IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET \&. 6D IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET \&. 6D IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET \&. 6D IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET \&. 6D IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET \&. 6D IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET \&. 6D IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET \&. 6D IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET \&. 6D IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET \&. 6D IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET \&. 6D IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET \&. 6D IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET \&. 6D IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 192.112.36.4 J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 198.41.0.10 K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 193.0.14.129 L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 198.32.64.12 M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 202.12.27.33 A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 198.41.0.4 H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 128.63.2.53 B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 128.9.0.107 C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 192.33.4.12 D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 128.8.10.90 E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 192.203.230.10 I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 192.36.148.17 F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 5w6d16h IN A 192.5.5.241 On Box B, here is /var/named/pz/127.0.0 : @ IN SOA local.com. hostmaster.local.com. ( 1 ; Serial 8H ; Refresh 2H ; Retry 1W ; Expire 1D) ; Minimum TTL NS chief.local.com. PTR localhost. Kenneth -- There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
