[plug] DNS problem has me stumped

[Sol]

Thankyou for your reply Peter. 
"ps aux | grep named" gets:
root	164	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
root	166	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
root	167	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
root	168	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
root	169	0.0	0.9	10204	2344	?	S	16:43	0:00	/usr/sbin/named
root	1812	0.0	0.1	1336	468	pts/1	S	22:32	0:00	grep named

/var/log/messages had nothing of note to tell me (except a complaint about xfs 
which I didn't realise was a problem). I just read the manpage for named to 
work out what that was all about. :-) I've still no idea what the above 
message is all about. What do these tea leaves have to tell us?

Cheers,
sol


On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 04:55 pm, Peter Weatherall wrote:
> 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