[Cialug] DNS Issues

[Paul Gray]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:48:34PM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> Are you sure it's not a problem with ncsd? The Debian package info for 
> that says:
> 
> "A daemon which handles passwd, group and host lookups for running 
> programs and caches the results for the next query. You should install 
> this package only if you use slow Services like LDAP, NIS or NIS+"
> 

If nscd is running, you can stop it with "/etc/init.d/nscd stop"
or invalidate the hosts with nscd -i hosts

But, it sounds like the root of your problem isn't resolv.conf, but rather the
default route.

What does "route -n" show?  does it point to the firewall as the default
gateway?

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