DNS corruption (redirection)

[djmccorrie]

Binary package hint: screenlets

some sites are temporarily redirected to others or produce 404 errors. For example:

Yesterday studentloanrepayment.co.uk/ gave 404 and then later resolved to the correct IP. Today it redirects to http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Portal:Main

Same in Chromium and Firefox, reproducible in both karmic and lucid A1. This is from a home network, where all other Computers (with windows) resolve the domain names correctly.

david@david-laptop:~$ ping studentloanrepayment.co.uk
PING studentloanrepayment.co.uk (83.223.112.142) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from runescape.wikia.com (83.223.112.142): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=35.0 ms
64 bytes from runescape.wikia.com (83.223.112.142): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=36.4 ms
64 bytes from runescape.wikia.com (83.223.112.142): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=33.4 ms
64 bytes from runescape.wikia.com (83.223.112.142): icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=33.6 ms
^C
--- studentloanrepayment.co.uk ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 4 received, 20% packet loss, time 4006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 33.431/34.648/36.421/1.219 ms

Another possibly unrelated problem is that I have to run `sudo dhclient wlan0` before any domains will resolve.
I am using a

Please Note:
I do have the latest kernel installed (vmlinuz-2.6.32-9-generic) but have to use 2.6.31 sometimes because of an intermittent bug when I select 2.6.32-9 in grub. For some reason xorg freezes or at least backgrounds are displayed but not text and gtk controls. Although it seems to work after booting to 2.6.31, restarting and booting to 2.6.32?

The DNS bugs are reproducible running under all kernels (when I can boot using them).

Hardware:
- Clevo M76T (Laptop)
- BT Voyager 2100 (Router)

(dmesg output has been attached as file 'log')

Sorry I cant give more information.

James

[djmccorrie (djmccorrie)]

Sorry, it looks as tho I have posted this in the wrong place. I was having problems with the weather screenlet, possibly due to this DNS bug. The bug report seems to have kept the previous context. I don't know which package this should have been associated with?

[dino99 (9d9)]

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