[BlueOnyx:27379] Re: BlueOnyx not resolving

[greggk at gmail.com]

>> Woke up this morning to a 5211R that wouldn't resolve.  
>> This particular box only has websites and email on it, no DNS.  
>> I noticed it because the emails were not delivering because the server 
>> was not able to resolve any of the email servers.

>If you're not hosting DNS on that BlueOnyx, then you might not need to run
"named-chroot".

>Under "Server Management" / "System Settings" / "TCP/IP" in the field "DNS
Servers (optional)" you can specify which external >DNS servers BlueOnyx
should use to resolve DNS.

>The DNS servers configured there are stored in /etc/resolv.conf and all
programs that need to resolve DNS then use those DNS >servers.

>Most likely the DNS server(s) you have configured there right now aren't
working correctly and that's causing the issues.

I take it back.  I just checked and it's not resolving again. Does the
resolver pause itself if there is an attack? All I could think of is maybe
someone is trying a DDOS and the resolver quits for a while, and starts back
up? How can I trace this problem?