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I'm running bind 9.3.4 on Etch. Its been running for several months now. All of the sudden, I get the following error when I try to resolve certain addresses:

connection timed out; no servers could be reached

For instance, if I try hotmail.com I get the error. If I try google.com I don't get the error. I looked through the other blog pertaining to this error, but I do not have any secondary IP addresses assigned to my ethernet port. Syslog, Daemon.log, nor dns_security.log do not show any errors.

Any clues to what might be causing this?

Thanks in advance

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Submitted by spires on Wed, 2008-01-16 14:49.

Hi,

Maybe your root.hints need to be upgraded.

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Submitted by GeorgeBaker on Wed, 2008-01-16 21:55.

I updated the root servers, and that helped some, now when I do a dig on some sites, all I get is the list of the root servers.

dig @192.164.1.30 hotmail.co.uk

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> @192.164.1.30 hotmail.co.uk
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34902
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 13

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hotmail.co.uk. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 135703 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
. 135703 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
. 135703 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
. 135703 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
. 135703 IN NS h.root-servers.net.
. 135703 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
. 135703 IN NS j.root-servers.net.
. 135703 IN NS k.root-servers.net.
. 135703 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
. 135703 IN NS m.root-servers.net.
. 135703 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
. 135703 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
. 135703 IN NS c.root-servers.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.root-servers.net. 135703 IN A 198.41.0.4
b.root-servers.net. 135703 IN A 192.228.79.201
c.root-servers.net. 135703 IN A 192.33.4.12
d.root-servers.net. 135703 IN A 128.8.10.90
e.root-servers.net. 135703 IN A 192.203.230.10
f.root-servers.net. 135703 IN A 192.5.5.241
g.root-servers.net. 135703 IN A 192.112.36.4
h.root-servers.net. 135703 IN A 128.63.2.53
i.root-servers.net. 135703 IN A 192.36.148.17
j.root-servers.net. 135703 IN A 192.58.128.30
k.root-servers.net. 135703 IN A 193.0.14.129
l.root-servers.net. 135703 IN A 199.7.83.42
m.root-servers.net. 135703 IN A 202.12.27.33

;; Query time: 6 msec
;; SERVER: 192.164.1.30#53(192.164.1.30)
;; WHEN: Wed Jan 16 21:46:09 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 450

If I do an nslookup on the same site I get the following:

Can't find hotmail.co.uk: No answer

any other suggestions?

Thanks

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Submitted by apolinsky on Tue, 2008-01-22 15:38.

Whenever I have troubles such as this, the answer generally resides in /etc/resolv.conf. When you connect to the internet and get thrown an address by your ISP, they will often re-order the entries in resolv.conf. I don't think the hints file is your problem.

alan

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