m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Has anyone had problems accessing random websites since going up to 6.4? > > Since about the day after I got partly upgraded, if I try to access > nytimes.com, or orbitz.com, I get server not found. > > With a lot of work, I, my manager, and the other admin, found that setting > options edns0 in /etc/resolv.conf fixed it - I suspect that the network > folks updated their internal nameservers (which are M$) about that time... > but... we got this Thurs. Friday, I went to look, lunchtime, at a story, > and back to the same. Later, and I think I was playing around, it came > back. > > Just now, over lunch, it failed... until I restarted nscd. My manager > tells me it's caching... but it seems to be caching momentary failures. > > So: has anyone else seen oddness that might be related to nscd? A quick followup of myself to provide more info: I see, in /etc/nscd.conf, that all the negative ttl's appear to be 20 sec, but I'm resonably sure that once I lose it, it's > 20 sec before go back to try again, and it's still not gone. mark