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Re: Possible DNS issue in Debian/Lenny?



On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:27:16AM -0600, Mike Chorak wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 02:55:12AM -0600, Mike Chorak wrote:
>>> I'm having a rather annoying problem. It seems when I try to navigate 
>>> to  www.facebook.com, in either Iceweasel or Epiphany, the browser 
>>> will  sometimes hang for upwards of 30 seconds, until it finally 
>>> navigates to  the site. After this delay, I can surf the site for 
>>> maybe a minute or so  before it hangs again. This problem only occurs 
>>> in Debian/Lenny, because  I attempted surfing in Vista with no 
>>> problems whatsoever. Has anyone had  any issues like this? I thought 
>>> maybe avahi could've been causing it but  I tried disabling the 
>>> daemon and the problem still remains. Any help  would be appreciated!
>>
>> A more direct test of name resolution (which does not necessarily have 
>> to be DNS) is:
>>
>>   getent hosts www.facebook.com

can you show us /etc/nsswitch.conf, also /etc/resolv.conf and try
dig google.com


I am guessing you have the mdns in nsswitch (just a guess off the top of
my head)


>>
>
> Sure enough when I run that command it delays for exactly 20 seconds  
> before I get a response back! Something local must be timing out...I  
> must've installed something that's not working well with everything else  
> or something is misconfigured but I don't know what it could be.
>
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