ping: unknown host google.com

Posted by Tar on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Tar
Published on 2012-06-11T12:48:45Z Indexed on 2012/06/11 16:42 UTC
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dns

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nameserver

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ping

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tcpdump

Relevant output:

/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1               localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4  localhost4.localdomain4
::1             localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6
servers_ip_address            server.2006scape.com server


/etc/resolv.conf
search 2006scape.com
#Generated by NetworkManager
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

Some stuff from tcpdump

07:46:28.795843 IP server_ip.42841 > 8.8.4.4.domain: 60253+ PTR? 87.127.104.87.in-addr.arpa. (44)
07:46:28.795980 IP server_ip.54001 > 8.8.4.4.domain: 7390+ PTR? 60.187.80.98.in-addr.arpa. (43)
07:46:28.804029 IP server_ip.59667 > 8.8.4.4.domain: 58876+ PTR? 134.154.161.72.in-addr.arpa. (45)
07:46:28.884171 IP server_ip.46255 > 8.8.4.4.domain: 63027+ PTR? 195.156.251.84.in-addr.arpa. (45)
07:46:28.884217 IP server_ip.35426 > 8.8.4.4.domain: 10538+ PTR? 118.3.182.166.in-addr.arpa. (44)
07:46:28.884253 IP server_ip.53635 > 8.8.4.4.domain: 29928+ PTR? 230.94.81.83.in-addr.arpa. (43)
07:46:28.884286 IP server_ip.45787 > 8.8.4.4.domain: 41151+ PTR? 18.32.223.121.in-addr.arpa. (44)
07:46:28.946045 IP server_ip.47246 > 8.8.4.4.domain: 43103+ PTR? 81.70.251.84.in-addr.arpa. (43)
07:46:28.946066 IP server_ip.33208 > 8.8.4.4.domain: 61117+ PTR? 69.170.184.71.in-addr.arpa. (44)

Anyone have any input as to what is causing this?

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