[root@cent5 ~]# dig www.google.com @208.67.220.220

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5 <<>> www.google.com @208.67.220.220

;; global options:  printcmd

;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

Best Regards,
Gaurav

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Pitshou Asingalembi <depitsho@yahoo.fr> wrote:

John R Pierce wrote:
> Gaurav Nangla wrote:
>
>> I can ping the google.com <http://google.com> ip addresses
>> (209.85.231.104) but can't ping the FQDN, obviously DNS is broken.
>>
>> I can also ping the nameserver ip addresses specified in /etc/resolv.conf.
>>
>
> well, the DNS servers given by your resolv.conf output seem valid from
> here..  I recommend doing some more debugging with `host` or similar DNS
> diagnostic tools.
>
> note regular DNS lookups like these tend to use UDP rather than TCP, if
> you're behind a NAT firewall which doesn't allow outbound udp port 53
> and connection track the response, then things might not work well.
>
>
> $ host google.com 208.67.220.220
> Using domain server:
> Name: 208.67.220.220
> Address: 208.67.220.220#53
> Aliases:
>
> google.com has address 74.125.19.105
> google.com has address 74.125.19.99
> google.com has address 74.125.19.103
> google.com has address 74.125.19.106
> google.com has address 74.125.19.147
> google.com has address 74.125.19.104
> google.com mail is handled by 400 google.com.s9b2.psmtp.com.
> google.com mail is handled by 200 google.com.s9a2.psmtp.com.
> google.com mail is handled by 300 google.com.s9b1.psmtp.com.
> google.com mail is handled by 100 google.com.s9a1.psmtp.com.
>
> $ host google.com 208.67.222.222
> Using domain server:
> Name: 208.67.222.222
> Address: 208.67.222.222#53
> Aliases:
>
> google.com has address 74.125.19.105
> google.com has address 74.125.19.147
> google.com has address 74.125.19.99
> google.com has address 74.125.19.103
> google.com has address 74.125.19.104
> google.com has address 74.125.19.106
> google.com mail is handled by 400 google.com.s9b2.psmtp.com.
> google.com mail is handled by 200 google.com.s9a2.psmtp.com.
> google.com mail is handled by 300 google.com.s9b1.psmtp.com.
> google.com mail is handled by 100 google.com.s9a1.psmtp.com.
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please try:
dig www.google.com @IPofyourDNSserver
and send me the output

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