DNS resolving troubles ...

[anton]

Hello,

quite often I have problems resolving IPs of domains on my linux box , though on my windows box, having the same configuration, I don't have any problem at the same time...


what can be the problem ?

quite annoying :(

thx

[DMR]

You're absolutely sure that the search domain and DNS server entries in /etc/resolv.conf are the same as those entered in your Win network config then, yes; or do you obtain your IP config via DHCP from your ISP?

[anton]

I have static ip on network ...

now I'm not sure ...

what's a search domain ?

I have it:
"search home"

[DMR]

What I mean is that your /etc/resolv.conf file should have your ISP's domain name, as well as the IP addresses of their name server(s). For example, my ISP is attbi.com, so my resolv.conf is as follows:domain attbi.com
nameserver 216.148.227.68
nameserver 204.127.202.4
nameserver 207.127.126.41

Is the inability to resolve addresses random, or does it always/mostly happen with certain sites?

[anton]

in my resolv.conf I had 2 DNS servers and this:
search home


no I've put there domain ... we'll see what happens :)

it doesn't resolve on random ... but most of the times, if it doesn't resolve one site, it won't resolve any other :(

[weezle]

What happens when run nslookup on a domain that your browser can not retrieve?

Try resolving a domain name with nslookup and set the DNS server to the one's listed in resolve.conf

example:
#nslookup (start nslookup)
#server ns1.domain.com (specify dns server)
#google.com (lookup a domain)

Try both dns servers - it may be a problem with only one of the dns servers and if you can narrow down the one that may be causing the problem you can contact your isp so that they are aware of the problem you are expeirencing.... :cool: