[ale] DNS issues

[Jim Philips]

Well, the problem is back...sporadically.  Occasionally, I'll be in the middle 
of viewing a site, when I click on a link and get "unknown host". I'm also 
seeing failures in the logs I keep for a mailing list I administer. When I 
look at the PPPoE settings on windows, I see that no DNS servers are set. 
They are acquired automatically. Could it be that Speedfactory is changing 
the servers on the fly and my static settings in Linux cause me to miss this?

On Sunday 06 February 2005 05:35 pm, Jim Philips wrote:
> I made numerous upgrades on my Slackware box earlier this week,
> including BIND. Now DNS seems to have gone crazy. Sometimes I can't
> retrieve mail. When I try the following:
>
> dig mail.speedfactory.net
>
> I get a message back saying no servers could be reached. The DNS servers
> in /etc/resolv.conf are the correct ones for Speedfactory, as far as I
> know. This is what I have:
>
> nameserver 66.23.208.138
> nameserver 66.203.208.142
>
> But some addresses just can't be found even when I have a perfectly good
> PPP connection. This issue doesn't exist in Windows (which I'm using
> now) so it has to be a Linux issue. Any further ideas on what I should
> check?
>
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