[Server-devel] DNS strangeness on 0.5.2

[Sameer Verma]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> 2009/5/17 Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu>:
>> Campus network: When I use the XS on a segment of our campus network,
>> it gets a public IP from our campus dhcp server (130.212.xxx) but I
>> don't see any SFSU DNS servers in cat /etc/resolv.conf on the XS. Its
>> still points to itself (172.18.0.1) The XO gets IP (172.18.10.13), DNS
>> (172.18.0.1), all as expected. Browse will not go out to say
>> http://verma.sfsu.edu/ but will go out to http://130.212.24.20 which
>> is verma.sfsu.edu's IP.
>>
>> Any ideas on what's broken? Where should I begin to look?
>
> The XO doesn't need a DNS server from your ISP because it *is* a DNS server :)
>

So, in this case the DNS server (BIND?) is not able to resolve FQDN?
Where in the logs should I be looking?

> Perhaps your campus network has some kind of filtering or blocking
> that prevents people from making any DNS requests except ones to the
> campus servers.
>

I'll double check.

cheers,
Sameer
> Daniel
>