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[Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net>]

For the German servers you mentioned, I assume you are referring to 
178.63.26.173 and 217.79.186.148?  I just ran a test on both servers, 
and they are responding fine.  So first we want to see what 
/etc/resolv.conf looks like.  Grab a copy of that and paste it into an 
email to the mailing list.

The next step is to make sure your end (either your servers or your ISP) 
is not blocking the queries.  Try executing this and see what you get:

# dig NS . @178.63.26.173 +short

(Note the spaces around the period!)  You should get a list of 7 
nameservers returned.  If this succeeds, I would next try manually 
inserting nameserver lines into /etc/resolv.conf.  You will likely have 
a couple lines at the top setting the domain and search parameters.  
What you need to do is insert the following two lines BEFORE any other 
nameserver lines in this file:

nameserver 178.63.26.173
nameserver 217.79.186.148

You do NOT need to restart networking, however it may help to restart 
nscd (if you have it) to flush the DNS cache.  After this, start simple 
- ping google.com.  Then move into opennic domains by pinging 
ns0.opennic.glue and grep.geek.  If things seem to be working, try the 
shortened dig command:

# dig NS . +short

This should return the same list of nameservers as above.  If everything 
appears to be working now, then the problem lies in how your networking 
script is applying the user DNS entries (which we can probably verify 
once we see what your original resolv.conf file looks like).  Let us 
know what works and what doesn't, and we'll proceed from there...


On 12/21/2010 08:27 PM, subhuman wrote:
> Hi @all,
>
> supposedly my question got lost amid the political and legal discussion going 
> on. However, the problem still exists, so I dare ask again (Linux version 
> 2.6.32-2-686 (Debian 2.6.32-8) (ben AT decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.4 
> (Debian 4.3.4-6) ) #1 SMP Thu Feb 11 04:08:42 UTC 2010):
> :
>
> I've just tried to migrate to OpenNIC, however it didn't work.
>
> 1. I replaced the nameservers listed in resolv.conf by the two german ip's listed on 
> your homepage. However, since the two environment variables $DNS1 and $DNS2 still kept 
> the values pppd once defined them with I had to run a /etc/init.d/networking stop|start 
> - of course after having commented the "usepeerdns" options in 
> /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider. (Two vital necessities that somehow slipped the author of 
> the HowTo on your site). After that nothing on the internet was reachable anymore, 
> whence I must assume that those nameservers aren't active anymore.
>
> 2. In order to be able to post these problems on your forum I tried to register on your site. The 
> result always was: "Illegal token", however unsophisticated a password I chose. I fancy 
> it's the "@" in the mail address your server's script stumbles upon
>
> Would anyone be so kind and shed some light on me?
>
> Thx in advance
> Martin
>
>