Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:51:07 +1100 From: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com To: David Raistrick <keen@damoe.wireless-isp.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sudden name resolution problems? 4.0-R (sorry its not stable..) Message-ID: <200009130051.e8D0p7i55993@drugs.dv.isc.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:41:48 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009122040250.5075-100000@damoe.wireless-isp.net>
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What is in /etc/host.conf? Mark > > Sending this to stable, because you folks are used to dealing with wierd > problems like this...twice to -questions got no replies. > > Any ideas....thanks > > -- > Ok, yesterday things got wierd. > > My workstation at work is running 4.0-R, and I recently changed the IP > address. I kept the old IP bound as well, for a few weeks, just in > case. > > Well, yesterday i removed the old address from the NIC, and things > broke. At least, that is when i noticed them breaking. fetchmail stopped > retrieving my mail. > > The error that fetchmail gives is: > fetchmail: reading message 1 of 321 (2776 octets) > fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed > fetchmail: POP3> QUIT > fetchmail: POP3< Ken, > fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > > Ok, wierd sez I. > > think that is wierd? > > damoe:/home/keen%> telnet damoe.wireless-isp.net > damoe.wireless-isp.net: No address associated with hostname > damoe:/home/keen%> ssh damoe.wireless-isp.net > Host key not found from the list of known hosts. > Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? ^C > Received signal 2. > damoe:/home/keen%> nslookup damoe.wireless-isp.net > Server: dns1.wireless-isp.net > Address: 208.61.227.10 > > Name: damoe.wireless-isp.net > Address: 208.61.227.212 > > damoe:/home/keen%> > > > > Telnet doesnt want to resolve names! I've tried all of the nameservers i > have handy, including the one running on the workstation...nada. > > I cant seem to find a way to get telnet to give me anything more verbose > for the error, though. I find nothing of it in the logs, either. > > Suggestions?? > > Fyi, I did try adding the old IP back to the NIC, same thing. Even > swapped everything back to the old ip scheme...nada. > > > What am i missing? I've changed IP addresses on many FreeBSD boxen since > 3.0-R...(what can I say, I was a bsd/os guy before that..;) with never a > problem..at least not such as this. > > Thanks for your help.. > > ...david > > > -- > David Raistrick Digital Wireless Communications > davidr@dwcinet.com > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc. 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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