Re: [SLUG] Weird DNS issues

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm getting weird DNS timeouts. The /etc/resolv.conf file on my
>machine points to the ADSL modem, 192.168.1.1.
>
>    machine >  host planet.linux.org.au 192.168.1.1
>    Using domain server:
>    Name: 192.168.1.1
>    Address: 192.168.1.1#53
>    Aliases: 
>
>    planet.linux.org.au has address 221.133.213.94
>    ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>    ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>
>If I telnet into the modem and grab the /etc/resolv.conf file from
>that and use the two nameservers lsited there, I get no connection
>time outs.
>
>Can anybody explain that?

How's your routing table looking?

Use dig instead of host, and trace the path to see which of the no servers
can't be reached: dig +trace @192.168.1.1 planet.linux.org.au