DNS problem with Covad DSL

[Tom Metro]

John Abreau wrote:
> Tom Metro wrote:
>> Every once in a while my DNS stops working for hours at a time. Looking
>> into it I find that I can do queries via TCP, but normal UDP queries
>> result in a server timeout. This is true no matter what DNS client I use
>> and no matter what DNS server I target out on the net.
> 
> What happens when you run a DNS server internally?

I haven't ran a recursive DNS server internally in a long time (I'm 
running Dnsmasq, which is a proxy or relaying server), but I don't have 
any reason to believe that the results would be any different. Any 
recursive DNS service I try and query outside my LAN just results in a 
timeout if I use UDP. At some point I probably did try a manual query 
against a root server, though I suppose I could try that again. The 
query sent to a root server is only different by a few bits from the one 
sent to a recursive server.

  -Tom

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