[tlug] Re: Absurd DNS failures

[Mike FABIAN <mfabian@example.com>]

"Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@example.com> さんは書きました:

> When dialled up from Linux, the nslookup command automatically contacts my
> ISP's DNS servers and resolves names like www.yahoo.co.uk, www.yahoo.co.jp,
> and www.att.com.  But it fails with names like www.yahoo.com -- it says that
> it cannot reach any name servers.  This has been reproduced a dozen times
> one day and a dozen times the next day.
>
> When dialled up from Windows XP, the nslookup command automatically contacts
> my ISP's DNS servers and resolves all of those names.
>
> So is there something about the combination of US domain names and Linux and
> my ISP's DNS servers that causes failure?  No, that is not it, because of
> one more test.
>
> Back to Linux, and something that I only reproduced twice in one day because
> this was enough to persuade me that this is unbelievable.
> "nslookup www.asia.microsoft.com" found CNAME records for microsoft.com
> and listed several addresses starting with 207.46.
> But "nslookup microsoft.com" timed out and said it could not reach any name
> servers.
>
> SuSE 8.1, but does it matter, this situation is unbelievable anyway.

Don't know, but both "nslookup www.yahoo.com" and "nslookup
microsoft.com" work for me on SuSE 8.2.

I guess it's some configuration issue.

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