Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 09:46:57 +0000 From: Richard Morte <ric@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: DNS and resolv.conf Message-ID: <382E8511.67F02855@sinclairassoc.force9.co.uk>
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I have named running on a local server with private subnet 192.168.120
DNS has been working fine for over a month now, but recently I have
started getting error messages ('cannot connect to host') when _first_
connecting to the internet and when first accessing mail accounts at our
ISP. A 2nd try always succeeds in resolving a name to IP address.
I had a single entry in resolv.conf :
domain at.home
but removed this because I kept seeing entries such as
'home.netscape.com.at.home' in the named logs. All seemed well for about
a week. Now I see 'at.home' appended occasionally to DNS lookups outside
the local subnet. Testing the DNS with nslookup works fine every time
for both local(private) and internet-wide names and addresses.
I am wondering if the problem lies with resolv.conf?
I have had various entries in there at one time or another. I deleted
the DNS entries (forwarders) for our ISP some time ago because it seemed
to cause numerous spontaneous dialups. After deleting these entries the
dialups ceased.
Now that I have deleted the 'domain' entry, resolv.conf is empty.
So just what should go in there?
Regards,
Ric
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