Which nameservers am I using?

[Net Llama!]

On 05/28/2005 08:14 PM, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>> errr?  they both tell me quite clearly. I use 204.60.203.190 as my 
>> 
>> [netllama at hal ~]$ nslookup yahoo.com; dig yahoo.com
> 
> I must be really confused. Try to follow this:
> 
> ####### Here's my resolv.conf
> # cat resolv.conf
> #nameserver 192.168.0.1
> nameserver 207.191.50.10
> nameserver 206.222.97.82
> nameserver 192.168.0.1
> 
> ####### Try nslookup (no workie!)
> # nslookup google.com
> Server:         207.191.50.10
> Address:        207.191.50.10#53
> 
> Non-authoritative answer:
> *** Can't find google.com: No answer
> 
> ####### Try ping just to be sure (no workie either!)
> # ping google.com
> ping: unknown host google.com
> 
> ####### Edit resolv.conf to uncomment the first line and try again
> # vi resolv.conf
> # cat resolv.conf
> nameserver 192.168.0.1
> nameserver 207.191.50.10
> nameserver 206.222.97.82
> nameserver 192.168.0.1
> # nslookup google.com
> Server:         192.168.0.1
> Address:        192.168.0.1#53
> 
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:   google.com
> Address: 216.239.37.99
> Name:   google.com
> Address: 216.239.39.99
> Name:   google.com
> Address: 216.239.57.99
> 
> ###### Try ping to make sure it really works
> # ping google.com
> PING google.com (216.239.37.99) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 216.239.37.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=240 time=70.3 ms
> 64 bytes from 216.239.37.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=240 time=68.9 ms
> 64 bytes from 216.239.37.99: icmp_seq=3 ttl=240 time=67.3 ms
> 
> What am I missing? What is the point of having multiple nameservers listed if 
> it only tries the first one and quits?
> 
> Feeling tired, dumb and confused,

207.191.50.10 is borked.  If i try to use it, i'm not gettting anything 
back either.  Where did you get that one from?

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