Re: [CentOS] Caching nameserver -- Name Services Cache Daemon (nscd)

nopers..still fails with the error i have been posting about.

Les Mikesell wrote:

On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 07:25, William Warren wrote:

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dig to localhost says: [root@enoch ~]# dig localhost

dig localhost tells the system to ask the server(s) mentioned in /etc/resolve.conf to resolve the name localhost.

What you want is: dig @localhost which queries the nameserver on the local machine to show you some info from the root servers as a useful diagnostic to make sure it can reach them. If you are firewalled in a way that udp on port 53 can't get back from the internet and you aren't configured to use a forwarder that can get answers, you won't see the root servers displayed. You can also query for specific addresses: dig @localhost www.sun.com