[ale] Can't connect to port 53

[Richard Bronosky]

At 6:02pm gcs8 asked the question that I see quoted in the bottom of the
message you sent. That is what he was responding to.
On Jan 18, 2013 8:48 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

> What thread are you responding to here?  I don't see any others in the
> thread yet I see other messages from Ale.
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> I agree that verifying basic connectivity using telnet command is a valid
> troubleshooting step.
> telnet <DNS host> 53
> If that doesn't work nothing else is likely to succeed.
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> Use of "nslookup" is deprecated for basic resolution - one should use
> "host" instead.
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> Using dig is better than nslookup for DNS troubleshooting.
> dig @<DNS host> <options/target domain>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Lynch
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 6:11 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Can't connect to port 53
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> On 01/17/2013 06:01 PM, gcs8 wrote:
> > Why are you using the DNS port?
> >
> I was attempting to test the dns configuration via nslookup and it
> couldn't connect to the dns server.  I was doing elementary troubleshooting
> which involves checking to see if the port was open and the easiest way to
> test that is via telnet, as far as I know.
>
> Jim.
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