Strange dial-up related DNS problems

[Barney Wolff]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:16:37PM +0200, Willie Viljoen wrote:
> 
> When connected to their ISP, SAIX, the machine can ping any live internet IP 
> and it can traceroute to anywhere, but, it can not talk to any DNS server. 
> Any traffic to port 53 UDP simply seems to dissapear.

Sheer guess, but perhaps the PPP negotiation is giving them something
weird (eg, 127.0.0.1) as the nameserver address.  Have a look at
/etc/resolv.conf while they're connected and at the ppp log.

Have you tried dig @server.ip some.host?
Any internal firewall in place?  What do its logs/stats show?

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