Re: [SLE] SuSE 9.3 DNS Unreliable

From: Lenz Grimmer (lenz_at_grimmer.com)
Date: 04/18/05

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    Hi,

    Randall R Schulz wrote:

    > With my 9.3 installation complete and mostly configured, I'm running
    > into an odd problem with DNS. It appears to work, for the most part,
    > but not perfectly. For example, the "host" and "nslookup" commands
    > produce proper results but applications such as KMail or Akregator
    > experience frequent, spurious and unpredictable failures to resolve
    > host names. Often between two quickly repeated requests to resolve a
    > given address (Akregator appears to resolve the same name repeatedly
    > when you have multiple feeds configured for the same RSS host) one will
    > succeed and another fail.
    >
    > I'm using a statically configured IP setup (host address, two
    > ISP-supplied DNS server addresses and a default routing host) on a DSL
    > link accessed via Ethernet. I've never experienced anything like this
    > with my 9.1 installation, and when I switch back to it (the 9.3
    > installation was onto a clean disk partition) the symptom does not
    > occur.
    >
    > Does anyone know what this might be? Is it some kind of configuration
    > fine-tuning I need to apply?

    AFAIK this is already fixed - run YOU to update kdelibs3.

    Bye,
            LenZ
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