A while back, after installing Slackware 10, I was complaining to Brian that Slackware has DNS issues. Well, obviously, because I was the only n00b that was having the issue it certainly wasn’t Slackware. Problem is, I had another server in my garage, a FreeBSD system, but it wasn’t having any issues with DNS.<\/p>\n
The problem was, whenever Slackware would try to resolve an address, it would resolve to 1.0.0.0. Any program that tried to resolve, except ping, would get a 1.0.0.0 address. Ping, however, would get a proper IP address associated to a domain name and once the domain name had been pinged, the first program that was resolving the DNS to 1.0.0.0 was now resolving properly.<\/p>\n
Well, now the FreeBSD is having the exact same issue – so it isn’t Slackware that is having the problem. It’s my damn network! Specifically, it’s the $5 per month Actiontec -POS- DSL router that is rented from Qwest.<\/p>\n
After resetting the DSL modem, which flushes the DNS cache, all the systems – FreeBSD and Slackware – resolve DNS correctly. Now I have to figure out a way to reset the modem every two days…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A while back, after installing Slackware 10, I was complaining to Brian that Slackware has DNS issues. Well, obviously, because I was the only n00b that was having the issue it certainly wasn’t Slackware. Problem is, I had another server in my garage, a FreeBSD system, but it wasn’t having any issues with DNS.<\/p>\n
The problem was, whenever Slackware would try to resolve an address, it would resolve to 1.0.0.0. Any program that tried to resolve, except ping, would get a 1.0.0.0 address. Ping, however, would get a proper IP address associated to a domain name and once the domain name had been pinged, the first program that was resolving …<\/p>\n [Continue reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/11h.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}