[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: DNS problem after upgrade to woody



On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 10:51:02AM -0500, Giulio Morgan wrote:
> kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
> 
> > on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:54:37PM -0500, Giulio Morgan (mickle@panix.com) wrote:
> > > After upgrading, I am unable to connect to mailserver with fetchmail, to remore
> > > hosts with apt, telnet, ssh, irc, lynx or mozilla. Messages are:
> > > unable to resolve host...
> > > something wicked happened...
> > > domain name could not be confirmed...
> > > it appears that there is a problem with DNS and I have no idea how to resolve
> > > it.

Check /etc/hosts. You should have something like

127.0.0.1	mymachine	localhost

where mymachine is the same as /etc/hostname

[]
> I can't determine if my "named" is running. I checked logs to see if I could

man nslookup - may allow you to test it out fully.

hth,
Mark.



Reply to: