DSL modem is reporting this DNS gone butz

[Ric Moore]

SAT SEP 23 03:14:19 2006 DNS Packet Dump bytes (0-31)
F0:. F6:. 01:. 10:. 00:. 01:. 00:. 00:. 00:. 00:. 00:. 01:. 03:. 6E:n
73:s 32:2 
0C:. 6D:m 6F:o 62:b 69:i 6C:l 65:e 78:x 70:p 65:e 72:r 74:t 73:s 03:.
6E:n 65:e 

SAT SEP 23 03:14:19 2006 DNS: Received invalid DNS request from
192.168.1.97 'Nonezero number of answers'

What does that mean?? DNS has gone nutz since I did an update. 

I reset the DSL modem, running in DHCP mode just to get on the net, and
this is strange. Even in DHCP it's erroring out. Anyone have a clue? 

[root at iam ~]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:85:3C:E2:A6
          inet addr:192.168.1.97  Bcast:255.255.255.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::214:85ff:fe3c:e2a6/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:5196 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5636 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1576464 (1.5 MiB)  TX bytes:731145 (714.0 KiB)
          Interrupt:209 Base address:0xe000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:3284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3284 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:3603888 (3.4 MiB)  TX bytes:3603888 (3.4 MiB)

[root at iam ~]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
eth0
default         launchmodem     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
eth0
[root at iam ~]# cd /etc
[root at iam etc]# more resolv.conf
# generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!

; Use a local caching nameserver controlled by NetworkManager

search launchmodem.com

nameserver 127.0.0.1

... this last bit looks strange, nameserver set to localhost, is that
right? Ric

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