Re: DNS Lookups

2012-08-03 Thread Pedro Eugênio Rocha
Roman, I've never tried this myself, but I think that other option would be to use iptables' OUTPUT chain with "-o your virtual interface". You can also restrict this rule to filter only DNS ports and so on. Another option is to use static routes, like Mihamina suggested. Cheers, On Fri, Aug 3,

Re: DNS Lookups

2012-08-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 08/03/2012 08:05 AM, Roman Gelfand wrote: I have configured 2 vlan interfaces on debian lenny box. The 2 interface ip's are 192.168.6.5 and 192..168.8.5. I would like making dns queries from this ip 192.168.6.5. What can be done to ensure that a dns query is made using specific response ip?

DNS Lookups

2012-08-02 Thread Roman Gelfand
I have configured 2 vlan interfaces on debian lenny box. The 2 interface ip's are 192.168.6.5 and 192..168.8.5. I would like making dns queries from this ip 192.168.6.5. What can be done to ensure that a dns query is made using specific response ip? Thanks in advance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: insserv: /home on NFS and local bind (DNS lookups fail on boot)

2010-08-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-08-06 10:01 +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > With > > nfs:/home /home nfs defaults0 0 > > in /etc/fstab I get > > mount.nfs: Failed to resolve server nfs: Temporary failure in name resolution > > on boot. This is because I use local bind9 and /etc/reso

Re: insserv: /home on NFS and local bind (DNS lookups fail on boot)

2010-08-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:22:19 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> So we are doing something wrong here. > > It seems that /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh does not actually call mount, it > is done by > > /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs > > when a network interface is brought up. > >

Re: insserv: /home on NFS and local bind (DNS lookups fail on boot)

2010-08-06 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Timo Juhani Lindfors writes: > Should I try starting bind9 before network is brought up? That sounds > very counter-intuitive. Replying to myself here: this fails since bind9 says "no networks configured". A hack that works for now seems to be to add if [ "$(pidof named)" = "" ]; then /etc/i

Re: insserv: /home on NFS and local bind (DNS lookups fail on boot)

2010-08-06 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Camaleón writes: > So we are doing something wrong here. It seems that /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh does not actually call mount, it is done by /etc/network/if-up.d/mountnfs when a network interface is brought up. Should I try starting bind9 before network is brought up? That sounds very counter-in

Re: insserv: /home on NFS and local bind (DNS lookups fail on boot)

2010-08-06 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Camaleón writes: > Did you read the manual or the docs for insserv? Maybe we are missing some > step to fully populate the new boot sequence :-? I did try but the man page does not really mention when symlinks are created. For example $ echo /etc/rc*/*bind9 /etc/rc0.d/K02bind9 /etc/rc1.d/K02bin

Re: insserv: /home on NFS and local bind (DNS lookups fail on boot)

2010-08-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:52:11 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> $named bind9 > > Thanks for the effort but this does not seem to be enough: > > $ grep -Ev "(^#|^$)" /etc/insserv.conf (...) > $named +named +dnsmasq +lwresd bind9 $network > $remote_fs

Re: insserv: /home on NFS and local bind (DNS lookups fail on boot)

2010-08-06 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Camaleón writes: > $namedbind9 Thanks for the effort but this does not seem to be enough: $ grep -Ev "(^#|^$)" /etc/insserv.conf $local_fs +mountall +mountoverflowtmp +umountfs $network+networking +ifupdown $named +named +dnsmasq +lwresd bind9 $network $remote_fs

Re: insserv: /home on NFS and local bind (DNS lookups fail on boot)

2010-08-06 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:01:01 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: (...) > I tried adding " bind9" to the $remote_fs line of /etc/insserv.conf but > got > > $ sudo insserv --dryrun > insserv: There is a loop between service bind9 and rsyslog if started > insserv: loop involving service rsyslog at

insserv: /home on NFS and local bind (DNS lookups fail on boot)

2010-08-06 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
With nfs:/home /home nfs defaults0 0 in /etc/fstab I get mount.nfs: Failed to resolve server nfs: Temporary failure in name resolution on boot. This is because I use local bind9 and /etc/resolv.conf has nameserver 127.0.0.1 I tried adding " bind9" to the $rem

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-19 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Old Crankbuster [2009-05-17 10:22:21 +0700]: > * Michael M. Moore [2009-05-16 16:20:28 -0700]: > (suggested disabling ipv6 entirely) > I'm seeing almost exactly the same thing in Fedora 11, and we're working > on that one in those lists. I think the local isp here has broken > servers,

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-16 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Old Crankbuster [2009-05-17 10:29:04 +0700]: > Ah. But this a standard install with no proxy, upgraded to Sid. The > difference between this side and that side is that I run bind9 on this > side as caching nameserver on this box... Waitaminnit > For grins, I just reinstalled Lenny on t

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-16 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Alex Samad [2009-05-17 10:53:31 +1000]: > you realise when you use a proxy the proxy does the name resolution. > also apt can be set to use a proxy as well in apt.conf and the > environment. Ah. But this a standard install with no proxy, upgraded to Sid. The difference between this side a

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-16 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Michael M. Moore [2009-05-16 16:20:28 -0700]: > Out of curiosity, if you ping the repositories first, then run apt-get > update, does it resolve properly and proceed with the update? Nope, no joy. The repos do resolve with ping, however. There seems to be something else going on when I cal

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 04:20:28PM -0700, Michael M. Moore wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 13:16 +0700, Old Crankbuster wrote: > > * Peter Crawford [2009-05-14 10:49:54 -0700]: > > [snip] > > Interestingly, have been able to solve the surfing problem in iceweasel > > by setting the network setti

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-16 Thread Michael M. Moore
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 13:16 +0700, Old Crankbuster wrote: > * Peter Crawford [2009-05-14 10:49:54 -0700]: > > > Does /etc/hosts begin thus? > > > > 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomainlocalhost > > 127.0.1.1mycomputer.invalidmycomputer > > > > If so, try commenting the 2nd line. > >

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-15 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Peter Crawford [2009-05-14 10:49:54 -0700]: > Does /etc/hosts begin thus? > > 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomainlocalhost > 127.0.1.1mycomputer.invalidmycomputer > > If so, try commenting the 2nd line. Tried the above, to no avail, so have reverted to original /etc/hosts thus:

RE: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-14 Thread Peter Crawford
> This doesn't look like a problem with DNS. > > But what could it be? Does /etc/hosts begin thus? 127.0.0.1localhost.localdomainlocalhost 127.0.1.1mycomputer.invalidmycomputer If so, try commenting the 2nd line. Regards, ... p. crawford ___

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-14 Thread Dave Patterson
* Old Crankbuster [2009-05-14 19:25:48 +0700]: > * Old Crankbuster [2009-05-14 19:22:14 +0700]: > > > > $ nslookup security.debian.org > > Server: 127.0.0.1 > > Address:127.0.0.1#53 > > > Oops wrong output, should read: > > Server: 192.168.1.1 > Address: 1

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-14 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Old Crankbuster [2009-05-14 19:22:14 +0700]: > $ nslookup security.debian.org > Server: 127.0.0.1 > Address: 127.0.0.1#53 > Oops wrong output, should read: Server: 192.168.1.1 Address:192.168.1.1#53 -- Cheers signature.asc Description: Digital signatu

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-14 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Jörg-Volker Peetz [2009-05-14 12:17:01 +0200]: > What is the outcome of the command > > dig +short > > or alternatively > > nslookup > > ? # apt-get update: (truncated, all repositories return the same) Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg Could not resolve 'sec

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
What is the outcome of the command dig +short or alternatively nslookup ? -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-14 Thread Old Crankbuster
* Andrei Popescu [2009-05-14 08:59:58 +0300]: > Maybe this NEWS entry? > > ,[ /usr/share/doc/libc6/NEWS.Debian ] > | glibc (2.9-8) unstable; urgency=low > | > | Starting with version 2.9-8, unified IPv4/IPv6 lookup have been enabled > | in the glibc's resolver. This is faster, fixes nume

Re: DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,14.May.09, 10:30:44, Old Crankbuster wrote: [DNS troubles in sid] > What do I need to look at? Maybe this NEWS entry? ,[ /usr/share/doc/libc6/NEWS.Debian ] | glibc (2.9-8) unstable; urgency=low | | Starting with version 2.9-8, unified IPv4/IPv6 lookup have been enabled | in the

DNS lookups in Sid

2009-05-13 Thread Old Crankbuster
Hi all - I put Sid on a couple partitions on this machine to play around with some other things, but I'm running into a problem: DNS lookups don't seem to be working. I can get to Google alright, but none of the links out of google's search page work - page not found. Fu

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-14 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 12 May 2007 09:03:41 -0500 Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I wish there was a way to keep my ISP DNS addresses in > the /etc/resolv.conf file permanently. I think they get overwritten > after getting a DHCP response. There certainly is; we discussed this on the list n

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
Dallas Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I wish there was a way to keep my ISP DNS addresses in > > > the /etc/resolv.conf file permanently. I think they get > > > overwritten after getting a DHCP response. > > > > Can't the router be reconfigured? > > I opened up port 53 for both UDP an

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-14 Thread Dallas Clement
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 16:15 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Thilo Six
Kushal Kumaran wrote the following on 12.05.2007 10:26: > This is not really a solution, just a workaround, but have you tried > installing a local DNS cache? pdnsd requires no configuration to set > up. pdnsd is neat. thanks. bye Thilo -- i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE - some friend of mine gpg ke

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Dallas Clement
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 10:40 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > I'm getting terrible DNS look

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Dallas Clement
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 16:15 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > > > I've installed the "Etc

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:03:41AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 14:27 +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > > > > Interestingly, if I

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Dallas Clement
> >> I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > > > > > > > > > >What is an official beta of Etch which is the current Stable? > > > > > > > > Sadly, after upgrading to 4.0 r0 I am still experiencing the

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Dallas Clement
> > ;; global options: printcmd > > ;; Got answer: > [snip] > > ;; Query time: 10 msec > > ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1) > > ;; WHEN: Thu May 10 09:39:26 2007 > > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 368 > > > > > > real0m10.031s > > user0m0.000s >

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
> > real0m10.031s > user0m0.000s > sys 0m0.000s Weird - the elapsed time for the DNS queries are reported as 10 msec each, yet they are 5 seconds apart? > This very same machine also has Windows Vista Ultimate 64 installed on > it and DNS lookups are lightning f

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-12 Thread Kushal Kumaran
ial beta of Etch which is the current Stable? > > > > Sadly, after upgrading to 4.0 r0 I am still experiencing the slow DNS > > lookups. > > > > This is what's in my sources.list file: > > > > debian:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list > > > >

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-11 Thread Dallas Clement
gt;> I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > >> I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > > > >What is an official beta of Etch which is the current Stable? > > Sadly, after upgrading to 4.0 r0 I am

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-11 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
n Etch system. > >> I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > > > >What is an official beta of Etch which is the current Stable? > > Sadly, after upgrading to 4.0 r0 I am still experiencing the slow DNS > lookups. > > This is what&#

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-11 Thread Dallas Clement
> What is an official beta of Etch which is the current Stable? Send us your /etc/apt/souces.list after you have done an update and upgrade, if the problem continues. Doug. -- Sadly, after upgrading to 4.0 r0 I am still experiencing the slow DNS lookups. This is what's in my sources.list

Re: Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-10 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > > I'm getting terrible DNS lookup performance on my Debian Etch system. > I've installed the "Etch" - Official Beta amd64 version. > What is an official beta of Etch which is the current Stable? Send us your /etc/apt/souces.list

Slow DNS Lookups on Debian Etch AMD 64

2007-05-10 Thread Dallas Clement
) ;; WHEN: Thu May 10 09:39:26 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 368 real0m10.031s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s debian:/# This very same machine also has Windows Vista Ultimate 64 installed on it and DNS lookups are lightning fast. There is definitely something going on with Debian Etch or perhaps t

Firefox DNS lookups

2006-01-22 Thread Tom Cook
All,I'm running firefox 1.5.dfsg-4 on an unstable install.  Whenever firefox is running it sends almost constant DNS requests (3 or 4 requests per seconds).  This traffic stays constant for hours at a time. Anyone know what causes this, or how I can stop it?Tom

Strange problem with programs doing dns lookups..

2005-05-09 Thread Christopher Rueber
s due to caching), and it will return the IP. The windows box has no problems at all with DNS lookups. It's operating fine. All the other *nix boxes are effected. Tried a different router, same issue. Reset modem and set everything back up from scratch (Actiontec DSL modem). Anyone have any clue

Re: slow DNS lookups from firewall

2005-01-09 Thread Chris Evans
OK Another take on this: I'm trying to debug why DNS lookups from a Debian woody firewall machine have become slow over an ADSL link to British Telecom's DNS servers (router and servers not changed lately). I'm an amateur sysop but generally cope well but need some help debugging

slow DNS lookups from firewall

2005-01-08 Thread Chris Evans
I have a small home network of two Debian stable machines and two Windoze portables (boo hiss but my work and spouse's require that). I'm hitting something that's puzzling me which is that DNS lookups from the firewall machine are slow whether directly or from the Windoze machines b

Nonsense DNS lookups for own hostname

2003-09-27 Thread Sebastian Reichelt
Hello! Recently I discovered something weird on my system: Seemingly every minute, it does DNS lookups for its own host names, which of course fail because I'm not in my ISP's DNS (and don't even have a dynamic IP, plus I'm on a local network with a firewall). Here is an

Nonsense DNS lookups for own hostname

2003-09-26 Thread Sebastian Reichelt
Hello! Recently I discovered something weird on my system: Seemingly every minute, it does DNS lookups for its own host names, which of course fail because I'm not in my ISP's DNS (and don't even have a dynamic IP, plus I'm on a local network with a firewall). Here is an

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups? (Oops)

2003-08-14 Thread HdV
Oops, sorry for the double. My bad. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-14 Thread Malcolm Ferguson
J.A. de Vries wrote: Contrary to common belief DNS is not UDP only. Once in a while a normal query will be to large and then TCP packets are used. So TCP is not exclusively for zone-transfers. If I understand what I've just read from a Google search, TCP is used when the data exceeds 512 bytes (

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-14 Thread Malcolm Ferguson
Jeremy Gaddis wrote: On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 22:02, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: I have /etc/resolv.conf containing a nameserver entry. I also have some name servers listed in the forwarders section of etc/bind/named.conf. Is there a way to configure both bind and the normal name resolver (how does

How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-10 Thread Malcolm Ferguson
I'm trying to configure iptables as strictly as possible, however, I'm having problems with DNS. If I understand correctly how DNS works, the client sends a UDP packet from a high number port to port 53 on the name server. The name server responds with a UDP packet back to that high number po

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-10 Thread HdV
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > If I understand what I've just read from a Google search, TCP is used > when the data exceeds 512 bytes (or as you say, for zone transfers). Is > this always to TCP port 53 on the server, or can the server indicate an > alternative port in it's initia

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-09 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:37:02AM -0400, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > This might be another dumb question, but how do I tell if the connection > tracking module isn't loaded? How is this configured, enabled, > disabled, etc? iptables will bitch at yo

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-08 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 22:02, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > I have /etc/resolv.conf containing a nameserver entry. I also have some > name servers listed in the forwarders section of /etc/bind/named.conf. > Is there a way to configure both bind and the normal name resolver (how > does it work???) t

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:02:42PM -0400, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > I'm trying to configure iptables as strictly as possible, however, I'm > having problems with DNS. If I understand correctly how DNS works, the > client sends a UDP packet from a hi

Thanks all! - Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-07 Thread Malcolm Ferguson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want to see the full script go to http://huizen.dto.tudelft.nl/devries/security/iptables_example.nl.html for an explanation and to http://huizen.dto.tudelft.nl/devries/files/iptables_files.tar.gz for the archive. Currently there's only a Dutch explanation avail

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-07 Thread HdV
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > I'm trying to configure iptables as strictly as possible, however, I'm > having problems with DNS. If I understand correctly how DNS works, the > client sends a UDP packet from a high number port to port 53 on the name > server. The name server respo

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:23:59PM -0500, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > iptables -A INPUT -s --sport 53 --dport 53 -p > udp -i -j ACCEPT > iptables -A INPUT -s --sport 53 --dport 53 -p > udp -i -j ACCEPT > > and maybe a matching set with "-p tcp". You s

Re: How do I configure iptables to allow DNS lookups?

2003-08-07 Thread J.A. de Vries
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Malcolm Ferguson wrote: > I'm trying to configure iptables as strictly as possible, however, I'm > having problems with DNS. If I understand correctly how DNS works, the > client sends a UDP packet from a high number port to port 53 on the name > server. The name server respo

Disable IPv6 DNS lookups?

2002-05-31 Thread Michael Schwingen
Hello, I did a fresh install of woody. whenever I try to telnet or ssh to some machine, the connect takes several seconds - it seems the system is trying an DNS lookup on the target, even if it is listed in /etc/hosts (and even for localhost!). I have order hosts,bind in host.conf and the eq

Re: Slow network -- Reverse DNS lookups

2001-06-12 Thread ktb
oftpd and sshd are doing reverse DNS > lookups. > So I supose the way to solve this is to set up a dns server. > I started up setting up a cache dns server just doing apt-get install > task-dns-server, adding 127.0.0.1 to the server's resolv.conf and making > each machine in th

Slow network -- Reverse DNS lookups

2001-06-12 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
Hi some of my linux servers inside a private range IP lan, are giving slow responses to clients inside the lan connecting to ftp or ssh. Whe had no DNS running. It seems to me this is because proftpd and sshd are doing reverse DNS lookups. So I supose the way to solve this is to set up a dns

Re: Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Moritz Schulte
Jeff Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > try putting the local servers in /etc/hosts They are in /etc/hosts - on both hosts. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org/ http://www.gnu.org GPG fingerpri

Re: Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Jeff Green
rk > > without establishing a internet connection. > > > > Can somebody please tell me what am I missing? > > Can they ping each other using names without doing DNS lookups? > > -- > Sean Furey, a happy and satisfied Debian user. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Moritz Schulte
Sean Furey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Moritz! Hi, > Can they ping each other using names without doing DNS lookups? Yes, without problems. moritz -- Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ Debian/GNU supporter - http://ww

Re: Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Sean Furey
ssing? Can they ping each other using names without doing DNS lookups? -- Sean Furey, a happy and satisfied Debian user. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Exim does unwanted DNS lookups for LAN

2000-11-26 Thread Moritz Schulte
# [...] # Send all mail to a smarthost smarthost: driver = domainlist transport = remote_smtp route_list = "* orion.sc byname" end I *wrote* "byname", which tells Exim to use gethostbyname() to find the IP address of orion and not "bydns_*" BUT

RE: DNS lookups fail

2000-03-22 Thread aphro
guyren >> From: Guyren G Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> guyren >> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:40:40 -0800 guyren >> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" guyren >> Subject: DNS lookups fail guyren >> guyren >> I have somehow managed to get things so that the

Re: DNS lookups fail

2000-03-22 Thread aphro
try manually setting a DNS: run nslookup enter: server some.server.name (feel free to use mine ns1.firetrail.com or ns2.firetrail.com) then enter a domain or ip or something to query the server if it times out it is more likely a network problem then a resolver problem. if it works, then try yo

RE: DNS lookups fail

2000-03-22 Thread Guyren G Howe
x27;s a routing issue. -- > From: Guyren G Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 04:40:40 -0800 > To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > Subject: DNS lookups fail > > I have somehow managed to get things so that the computers going through my >

DNS lookups fail

2000-03-22 Thread Guyren G Howe
I have somehow managed to get things so that the computers going through my Debian 2.2 box for NAT can do DNS just fine, but I can't do a nslookup from the same box itself to save myself. nslookup never returns anything, even a timeout. My /etc/resolv.conf file shows the same things I have set on

Re: DNS Lookups

1999-07-05 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "George" == George Bonser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: George> Microsoft will not "invent" DNS until NT5. Easy way is to George> simply insert the IP adddesses into the /etc/hosts file OR George> buy the book "DNS and BIND" from www.ora.com and learn how George> to build your own DNS

Re: DNS Lookups

1999-07-05 Thread Dan
The /etc/resolv.conf file contains both those servers? From: "Rudy Broersma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" Subject: DNS Lookups Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 22:44:53 +0200 Hi, My linux boxes can't perform DNS lookups. For example, if I want to mou

DNS Lookups

1999-07-05 Thread Rudy Broersma
Hi, My linux boxes can't perform DNS lookups. For example, if I want to mount an SMB Share, I have to do something like this: SMBMOUNT //NTSERVER/NT_SHARE /MOUNTPOINT But all I get back is: NTServer: Unknown host. The same happends when I ping my NTserver using his domain name: Ping NTS

Re: Smail in hamm checking DNS lookups?

1998-08-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JB" == Jay Barbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JB> My home system is setup on a dummy network (192.168.xxx.xxx), and I do JB> typically email myself at my work Debian box which is on the net with a JB> legit IP address. Now (after the hamm upgrade, I assume) I cannot send JB> mail, and port 2

Re: Smail in hamm checking DNS lookups?

1998-08-26 Thread rir
On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Jay Barbee wrote: > > I recently upgraded several of my Bo systems to Hamm. All went fine. I > am currently struggling with some of the minor changes that the new > packages have. delete use_bind in your /etc/smail/transports file's smarthost clause and probably anywhere

Smail in hamm checking DNS lookups?

1998-08-25 Thread Jay Barbee
I recently upgraded several of my Bo systems to Hamm. All went fine. I am currently struggling with some of the minor changes that the new packages have. My home system is setup on a dummy network (192.168.xxx.xxx), and I do typically email myself at my work Debian box which is on the net with

Re: heard all the who-haha? (slow reverse DNS lookups)

1997-08-13 Thread Donovan Baarda
ookups or > something. I'm no expert in this area, but what else can it be? Routing is > definitely not a problem. Running "ping" before trying the telnet session > returns "immediate" responses. Connecting from some remote hosts is no > problem, otheres there