Many thanks to all who replied to this message. Danial hedrick
and Mauricio F. Nogueira ponited me to put a "." in my search path
under /etc/resolv.conf file. It works! One thing still puzzles me though.
Why it worked before for several years with the original setup in
/etc/resolv.conf file, but not to work any more since two days ago.
As long as the problem is gone, I am not worried about the past.
Thank to:
From: bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Bismark Espinoza)
From: Rafael Napoles Rodriguez <rnapoles@reduno.com.mx>
From: Daniel Hedrick <dFrom:aniel@firstgpa.com>
From: cathy@mercury.stm.com (Cathy Hargrave)
From: "Rick von Richter" <rickv@mwh.com>
From: nogueira@telnet.com.br (Mauricio F. Nogueira - Webmaster)
From: "Karl E. Vogel" <vogelke@c17.wpafb.af.mil>
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>
> We recently, but not always, have the difficulties to access our DNS server.
> When search an IP address using an DNS domain name, if we do not put a "."
> at the end of the name, such as xxx.xxx.xxx, we will wait very long time to get
> an answer from the DNS server and sometime even won't get the answer. But if
> we put a "." at the end of the name, everything will be fine.
>
> Usually reboot the DNS server will solve this problem. But since yesterday,
> reboot is no longer help.
>
> Does anybody have any clue for this?
>
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