Weird DNS behaviour

[Rapael Morcha]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:11:00AM +0000, Edgars Šmits wrote:
> While waiting for the install to complete I tried to use dig:
> 
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$  dig +short www.vmware.com @192.168.0.1
> ;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
> ;; Connection to 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1) for www.vmware.com
> failed: connection refused.

raphael at f9:[~] dig +short www.vmware.com
www.vmware.com.edgekey.net.
e508.g.akamaiedge.net.
125.252.202.52
 
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$ dig +short www.gmail.com @192.168.0.1
> mail.google.com.
> googlemail.l.google.com.
> 66.249.91.83
> 66.249.91.19
> 66.249.91.17
> 66.249.91.18
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~$
> 
> So, it has no problems with gmail, but the connection is refused for
> www.vmware.com. I'm lost, where do I go now, there is no sysadmin
> here, or more to the point, I'm the sysadmin<G>. Should I look for a
> public DNS server close to home?

You can try opendns and see how it goes http://www.opendns.com/
Change /etc/resolv.conf to relevent DNS.

Read up if you have time - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendns 

-- 
Cheers,
Raphael.