Re: [CentOS] DNS resolve.conf not working - RESOLVED

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On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:06:27PM -0700, Email Lists wrote:

-> One diagnostic that might have helped you catch this is: -> -> dig @server_ip some.domain.name -> -> testing each server_ip from your /etc/resolv.conf individually.

Yup, that and although I don't know if it is as effective or helpful as it used to be for me, you could consider and do this from bash shell too...

telnet nameserveripaddress 53

No go, since most DNS servers will block TCP based queries for everything except their secondaries.

Standard DNS queries use UDP.

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