* Phillip Hellewell [Mon, 17 May 2004 at 22:29 -0600] <quote> > Hi all, > > I just got DSL and I'm having a weird problem with DNS. ftp, ssh, and > telnet all cannot connect to a host unless I first do a "host hostname". > Then it will connect fine. Also, if I hard-code in the DNS values from > my DSL modem (Actiontec) directly into my /etc/resolv.conf, then > everything works fine. > > Telnet shows an interesting message with this problem: > Trying 1.0.0.0... > > What is weird is that Mozilla works just fine... Hmmm... > > Any ideas??? Should I blame my Actiontec modem or possibly my Belkin > router? I'd like to, but the Win98 machine on my network works fine. > > Let me know if you need more information about my setup. > > Thanks, > Phillip > > -- > Phillip Hellewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> </quote>
This is interesting... I would say that it's probably the dns you're using. I don't know this for sure, but it looks like 'host' probably has it's own way of resolving host names, (from the man page - " It gets this information from a set of interconnected servers) so that could explain why you can do host, and once it's cached on your system, the other stuff works fine. I don't know why mozilla would be working, though. Again, it could just be your dns server is wacked. Strange indeed. But, if putting your modem's address in resolv.conf as your dns server works for you, just go ahead and do that.
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