[plug] DNS problem has me stumped

[Peter Weatherall]

sol wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm having that has me baffled regarding DNS resolution on a gateway 
> server.
>
> Internal networking (192.168.x.x) seems fine but trying to get 
> anything from the internet (including pinging anything external) just 
> hangs. I've checked with the ISP whose DNS server I was using over 
> ADSL, and all's well at their end. Also I can ssh to the machine from 
> home without any delay or problems.
>
> One curiosity is when using the web(apache) locally it won't resolve 
> it's own hostname. So I can get http://localhost/ but not http://gw/ 
> which just hangs until the browser times out.
>
what does ps aux | grep named reveal ? On Redhat something or rather 
named error messages go to /var/log/messages and are usually explanatory 
, find the equivalent on your box and post it if it isn't
HTH