From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764478AbXLQFw7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:52:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751084AbXLQFwu (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:52:50 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:46442 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750711AbXLQFwt (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:52:49 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FPpdxTYQsadww5VWbWzBtDQXZCQTs834WbzRVSBMniq4z6OPa9OWPUwQOQR99xwxL0h3yZbZ031rae2C6APBsRBqX2SvaucsyxdYFZWCyD/KX3YHteY8dRaLSUqE7349sEmehWZmmFtlRPC/7TQm3Rxbfxy607HSBNd36704C78= Message-ID: <78c462ad0712162152w7a889002v35b8392b97fb2c99@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:22:48 +0530 From: "Amogh Hooshdar" To: svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, "Amogh Hooshdar" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 1.0.0.0 DNS replies for many domain names (network) In-Reply-To: <20071217045126.GB17715@dirshya.in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <78c462ad0712140350v62ae169fm7a2ce077325ace5f@mail.gmail.com> <20071217045126.GB17715@dirshya.in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I fixed this by installing bind9 which has named server. After installing bind9, I used the default configuration, which understands DNS AAAA type queries and uses the root name servers and other servers for resolution. On Dec 17, 2007 10:21 AM, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan wrote: > * Amogh Hooshdar [2007-12-14 17:20:17]: > > > I am having a strange problem with Debian Etch 4.0 (both 64-bit and > > 32-bit) using 2.6.18 kernel. Most websites do not open with browser, > > Pidgin and most other GUI applicatoins. but I am able to ping them > > fine. I am also able to do nslookup properly. When I tried to > > investigate it with Wireshark net sniffer, I observed the following. > > > > PROBLEM WITH 2.6.18 > > Say, I try to open www.google.com, browser sends DNS query for > > www.google.com to my DNS server which is correctly configured in > > resolv.conf. It replies with the correct IP address. www.google.com > > redirects the browser to www.google.co.in. browser sends a DNS query > > again for www.google.co.in and the DNS server replies with 1.0.0.0 > > which obviously is the wrong address. > > I had this problem on Debian 4.0 and it was due to bug in the DSL > router. I had DNS server set to 192.168.1.1 that is my DSL router > that holds the real DNS IP and forwards the DNS lookup request. > > Once in a while the DNS proxy server will give out 1.0.0.0. The > solution I used was to find the real DNS server and fill it in > resolv.conf This avoids the DNS proxy on the router and then problem > went away. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/81057 > > --Vaidy > >