Hi,

I'm getting a strange behavior with DNS using Monowall 1.235.

All our clients are using monowall as their gateway and DNS.

Monowall is configured as a DNS forwarder to our 3 real DNS servers
(which are outside the monowall controlled network).

When I'm on one of our windows client boxes command line and type
"nslookup <some random server>", I get a timeout in the response. But,
if a try to ping that name, open a web page, etc, it does resolve
without problems. The Monowall server has a relatively high load, but
it's not overloaded (the cpu usage stays usually between 20% and 50%,
with a load of

Does that make any sense to anyone? Did I miss something painfully
obvious???

Any help would be appreciated.

Tks.

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Output sample from the nslookup:

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Não é possível encontrar o nome de servidor para o endereço
172.16.0.1: Time
d out
*** Os servidores padrão não estão disponíveis
Servidor:  UnKnown
Address:  172.16.0.1

DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** A requisição para UnKnown esgotou o tempo limite

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ipconfig output
Configuração de IP do Windows

Adaptador Ethernet Conexão de rede sem fio:

        Sufixo DNS específico de conexão  . : semfio.usp.br
        Endereço IP . . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.249.195
        Máscara de sub-rede . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
        Gateway padrão. . . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.0.1
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Monowall load:

m0n0wall: execute command

$ uptime
12:20PM  up  1:21, 0 users, load averages: 0.21, 0.46, 0.46



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