Thank you to all who helped and made suggestions. It turns out that I had firewalled all traffic on port 53 except to ns.gofast.net. Fixing the iptables file and restarting iptables cleared up the issue. skulking away in shame, but more knowledgable about dns, Chris Schumann _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list