Need help debugging either a network or a sendmail problem.

[Steven W. Orr]

On Sunday, Feb 19th 2006 at 15:40 -0600, quoth Les Mikesell:

=>On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 12:56, Steven W. Orr wrote:
=>> I have a weird problem.
=>> 
=>> 526 > hostname
=>> saturn.syslang.net
=>> 527 >
=>> 
=>> But, ...
=>> 
=>> 527> perl -MNet::Domain -e 'print Net::Domain::hostfqdn(), "\n"'
=>> saturn.com
=>> 
=>> And it takes almost 30 seconds to come back. (The above example is what I 
=>> did to reduce the bigger problem which caused me to notice this to the 
=>> smallest case.)
=>
=>Look at /etc/resolv.conf.  Is the first nameserver mentioned
=>there working?  (Try 'dig @ip_number domain_to_look_up' to
=>test it).

[root at saturn ~]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
search cable.rcn.com
nameserver 207.172.3.8
nameserver 207.172.3.9
[root at saturn ~]# 

I don't own my resolv.conf, that comes to me from my cablemodem provider 
via dhcp. They don't know anything about either saturn or syslang.net

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