Fascinating thing, I have been struggling with this also since last night and google has almost nothing on it - and yet here someone else is having the same trouble.
I just moved and got DSL (XMission) and was having this trouble last night. I figured it was the modem being stupid (Actiontec) because tcpdump indicated that the responses to AAAA queries were 1.0.0.0. AAAA queries are ipv6, btw, so it is related. I found a little on firefox and mozilla in general doing an ipv6 lookup first and that taking forever to timeout, so it wasn't surprising to me that I could use ssh just fine but web browsing was problematic. lynx apparently does the same thing. It's not supposed to be a problem, but some servers give malformed responses and at least last night my modem was too. (perhaps passing along a misconfiguration from upstream though...) Turning off ipv6 in my kernel (by deleting the modules and rebooting) kept firefox from looking up ipv6 and allowed me to browse again, but I still see occasional AAAA queries. I'm not sure that the problem is still being exhibited, it looks like it might be fixed. I'll probably post later tonight with an update. One very annoying thing about all this was no matter what I put in /etc/resolv.conf tcpdump would show that my box was querying the modem (192.168.0.1) with these AAAA queries. I was quite put off by that, and still haven't figured out how to make it ask _someone else_ because obviously my modem or upstream is (or was) borked. If anyone knows, please share. Google hasn't been any help. /* Quoth Phillip Hellewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 17 May 2004 at 22:29 -0600 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */ > 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]> > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- .O. Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. ..O http://hans.fugal.net | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg OOO | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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