[CLUE-Tech] PPTP DNS Problems

[David L. Willson]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 14:38, David Anselmi wrote:
> David L. Willson wrote:
> 
> > Here's an annoying 'feature'.  Can anyone shed some light?
> > 
> > When I PPTP into work, my /etc/resolv.conf updates, but somehow, my
> > actual resolutions continue to fail.  I can 'dig' and get the right
> > (internal) address, but when I 'traceroute' or 'ping', I get the wrong
> > (external) address.
> 
> Dig seems to ignore entries in /etc/hosts but ping does not.  Any chance 
> you've got an /etc/hosts entry for that box?

Dave, thanks for guessing, but no, I don't seem to have the entry, and
the problem seems to affect all hosts, in any case.  Frustratin'...

    (more demonstrative shell output below)
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[david at geneva david]$ cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

[david at geneva david]$ dig www.parsec.com
...
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.parsec.com.         3600    IN      A       10.100.0.31
...

[david at geneva david]$ ping www.parsec.com
PING www.parsec.com (65.125.246.31) 56(84) bytes of data.
 
--- www.parsec.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2009ms