Re: Debian resolves unkown hosts to itself

On 12/06/2007 03:32 PM Jonathan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an odd thing happening with DNS. When I do something like:
>
> $ nslookup va.med.gov.
> Server: 206.141.193.55
> Address: 206.141.193.55#53
>
> ** server can't find va.med.gov: NXDOMAIN
>
>
> Makes sense, right. But when I ping va.med.gov from the same server, it
> seems to resolve to the public ip of the box Im pinging from.
>
> # ping va.med.gov
>
> PING mydomain.com (1.2.3.4) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from host.mydomain.com (1.2.3.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
> time=0.013 ms
>
>
> --- mydomain.com ping statistics ---
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.006/0.008/0.013/0.004 ms
>
>
>
> 1.2.3.4 is the public IP of the machine I'm pinging from. va.med.gov is
> in no way affiliated with my domain.
>
> /etc/resolv.conf looks like:
>
> search mydomain.com
> nameserver 4.2.2.2
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>

Any chance you have in your /etc/hosts file:

1.2.3.4 mydomain.com va.med.gov

Somewhere you have va.med.gov associated with your IP address, and this is the only place I can think of. When I put va.med.gov in my /etc/hosts file, I get the same behavior.

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