Weird DNS behaviour

[Rapael Morcha]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:21:53PM +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 October 2007 11:00:32 Edgars Šmits wrote:
> > Glad someone took up the challenge...
> >
> > Nothing in my resolve.conf:
> >
> > edgars at gutsy-64:/etc$ more resolv.conf
> > # generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!
> > nameserver 192.168.0.1
> > edgars at gutsy-64:/etc$
> >
> > as to any dns related daemons, can't say that anything in there looks
> > to be of that sort.
> >
> > Anything else? It is specific only to Ubuntu.
> 
> 192.168.0.1 is your dns server? If yes, then that's correct.
> Hmm, what else...
> 1. Check for network quality, by pinging your dns server or any other pc in 
> the network for say a whole day and glance at the result whether there is any 
> time out.
> 2. When you can't open certain website, try use the command dig to see whether 
> it is your dns server that is having problem. Then try to dig with other dns 
> server such as: dig www.ubuntu.com @ipofotherdnsserver

As Fajar mentioned dig is helpful as well
$ dig +short www.somewww.com @ip.of.other.dns
(it should return list of resolved IP addresses of www.somewww.com)
If not, switch your DNS or talk to your admin.

-- 
Cheers,
Raphael.