Strange dial-up related DNS problems

From: Willie Viljoen (will_at_unfoldings.net)
Date: 07/30/03

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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 23:16:37 +0200

    This gets a 10.0 on my weird-o-meter.

    I have a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE machine sitting at a client which dials in and
    collects their mail via POP3, and sends outgoing mail via a smarthost which
    points to an SMTP server at their ISP.

    This machine has worked fine since late last year, but started giving a
    strange problem this week.

    When connected to their ISP, SAIX, the machine can ping any live internet IP
    and it can traceroute to anywhere, but, it can not talk to any DNS server.
    Any traffic to port 53 UDP simply seems to dissapear.

    The same with firewalling enabled as normal, or even with ipfw add 1 allow
    ip from any to any

    When connected to any other ISP we have tried dialing, all works perfectly.
    When dialed from another FreeBSD box with the same username/password, the
    SAIX connection works perfectly.

    Yet, this single machine absolutely flat out refuses to talk to any name
    server while connected to SAIX, firewalling, no firewalling, no difference.

    I have tried running tcpdump -i ppp0 udp port 53 in an attempt at capturing
    these packets, nothing, I also looked at rl0 just for interest's sake,
    nothing.

    I have run out of ideas, what am I missing?

    PS: Please CC me in the reply, I get so much list mail I might miss a reply
    there. 

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