Re: Lookup error on ...: Unknown error / DNS checked

I often have the problem of the bot giving me a look up error, but
it's not everytime, it's just some of the time.


On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:02:01 +0000, Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 06:45:15AM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> > Dear BOPM list,
> >
> > recently I started receiving "Lookup error on ...opm.blitzed.org:
> > Unknown error" error messages from my BOPM.
> > I read in the FAQ that this was often caused by incorrect or
> > not-responding DNS, however, I checked all my nameserver entries in
> > /etc/resolv.conf file and could not determine anything unusual.
> 
> Well, this *is* an error indicating that bopm's resolver library
> can't get a valid response from your nameservers.
> 
> > As such I've come here to seek for help. Any such would be appreciated
> > very much.
> > Would anyone have suggestions as to what to check / how to debug this
> > problem?
> 
> Does it happen every time a user connects?
> 
> What happens when you look up things in the DNSBL manually, e.g.
> 
> $ host 1.0.168.192.opm.blitzed.org
> 
> You don't have a firedns.conf in the same directory as bopm.conf,
> which would be overriding /etc/resolv.conf, right?
> 
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