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A possible solution for failed DNS lookups on 10.3
Authored by: victory on Nov 09, '04 08:11:05PM
Like (all?) others, I've been having name-lookup problems under 10.3.x. However, this is happening even though I've been (and still am) using my Linksys WRT54G address for DNS lookups -- months before the current 'situation' with 10.3.x failing to resolve names properly. (For owners of Linksys and other routers that proxy DNS requests this is a convenient tip anyway. It leaves it up to the router to automatically track if/when an ISP changes the address of their nameserver rather having to specify it on all your internal clients)

So while I'm glad the tip worked for the original poster, it didn't help my setup.

Note: I've also tried the macfixit.com tip of forcing the name resolver (bind) to start up in IPv4 mode without any luck.

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A possible solution for failed DNS lookups on 10.3
Authored by: g3cko on Nov 10, '04 05:12:59AM

I have a similar setup, dns server on my openbsd router, and i get exactly the same problem.

HOWEVER... I've found that setting my local dns server to use my ISP's dns IP's as forwarders seems to have cleared up the problem... I'll report back in a few hours if it seems to have fixed it.



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