[tlug] Restarting a dead DNS lookup

[Jim Breen <Jim.Breen@example.com>]

G'day all,

Greetings from warm old Melbourne, where we are having record
hot days and nights for autumnal April. Maybe Tokyo can ship us
some coolth.

Two questions:

(a) every so often (maybe once every 3 weeks on average) the DNS
support on my RH7.3 system quietly dies. The ISP's DNS servers are
still there, I can still get packets out to hosts I address by IP
address,  /etc/resolv.conf is OK, but I can't resolve any addresses.

Is there anything I can restart  or clear to get it going again?  At
present the only thing I can do is reboot.

(b) I usually keep kterm windows set to "Japanese EUC Mode". I find that
when I happen to view a file is ISO-2022-JP (e.g. read some email or
news), the kterm gets flipped into that mode, and consequently an EUC
file won't display. The only way I can get it back to handling EUC is to
turn the EUC Mode off then on, which is a bore. Does anyone know of a
way of preventing it from locking into ISO-2022-JP mode? Or a simpler
way of getting it back to EUC? (This problem only seemed to happen
around RH7.*  Before then (RH6.2, 5.2, etc. it never happened.)

Cheers

Jim

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Jim Breen                                http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
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