[H-GEN] DNS Problem

[Ian Pulsford]

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Andrew Pullin wrote:
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> Hi All,
>     I have just set up a dual boot machine with RH7.3 Linux.
> The install went fine, no problems and everything appears to
> be set up correctly - except there is a problem with surfing
> and name lookups.

Some ISPs won't let you use root servers for lookups, which you
shouldn't anyway, but named is often configured to do that with a
default <OS> install.  Do you have a forwarders line in named.conf
containing telstra's nameserver IPs?


Ian

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