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A work around.
Authored by: danimal on Dec 11, '02 12:57:54PM
Well I have gone 2 whole days without this problem. The fix? I have replaced my nameserver entries with two new ones which are running a different OS and perhaps a different version of bind (the DNS servers that are having problems did not report a version of bind, and may be running some other DNS service):
//The ones that did not work with OSX but work with other OSs ns1.ameritech.net ns2.ameritech.net Both are running: OS: Solaris 2.6 - 7 (SPARC) AND Solaris 8, respectively BIND Version: "_" //I can't publish the addresses of the nameservers that worked because //they aren't public. But here is the server info: Both are running: OS: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE (or -STABLE) Bind Version: 8.3.4-REL
So I have effectively solved this problem for myself. However, it seems that Apple has a bug in DNSAgent that surfaces when communicating with certain DNS servers (running Solaris?). By the way if you want to know how to get this information you must use nmap (nmap-nox in fink) and you can run the following command:
sudo nmap -O --osscan_guess [server address]
and to get the version of BIND:
dig chaos txt version.bind. @[server address]


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