[Buildroot] Buildroot 2012.02-rc3 released

Chris Kerios ckerios at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 00:40:39 UTC 2012


On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 February 2012 23:48:36 Steve Calfee wrote:
>> Both systems sit on a NAT LAN with 192.168* ip addresses. I don't know
>> if that affects things, shouldn't.
>
>  It will.  The DNS on the NAT will cache the authoritive server for
> uclibc.org.  If the original uclibc.org DNS server still replies to DNS
> requests, but doesn't give answers for uclibc.org addresses, then the NAT
> will not look further.  You can verify this by issuing
>
> host -v -t SOA uclibc.org
>
> which should reply
>
> uclibc.org.             86125   IN      SOA     ns1.auth.osuosl.org. hostmaster.osuosl.org. 1330554603 300 900 604800 86400
>
> but will probably reply with the old DNS server.
>
>  There is unfortunately no way to force your NAT to forget the cached
> record.  You can try to NOT access any uclibc.org site for 48 hours,
> which may expire the cache.
>
>  To fix it, something must be done at the old DNS server.  I don't know
> what needs to be done exactly.
>
>  Regards,
>  Arnout
>
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Arnout is definitely onto something.  Now that he brings it up this
way it also explains my work/home situation.  Both boxes are sitting
behind NAT'd devices.  I take it that I can't just reset my router to
clear the DNS cache record???  I tried it here at home and it didn't
work.

Regards,
Chris



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