DSL modem is reporting this DNS gone butz

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On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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

Unless you'r running your own nameserver, no that isn't right at all.

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