Re: "No DNS server configuration found" when approving spam reports

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Wed, Dec 24 2008, Steinar Bang wrote:

> When I'm running Lars' ~/gmadmin/spam-gmane.el to approve and reject
> spam reports in www.gmane.org I see the message "No DNS server
> configuration found" where I'm supposed to see the reverse lookup of the
> reporting machine's IP address.
>
> The spam-gmane.el uses a dns.el that comes from gnus, and the method
> that contains the message I see is the method query-dns.
>
> Does anyone know why the query-dns function in Gnus doesn't work as
> expected for me?  Is it expected to work at all on Windows machines?  Is
> it expected to work at all on Vista machines?

I don't think Windows has /etc/resolv.conf, so I think it is supposed
to work.  On GNU/Linux, I get:

,----[ M-x ielm RET ]
| ELISP> (require 'dns)
| dns
| ELISP> (let (dns-servers)
| 	 (dns-parse-resolv-conf))
| ("..." "192.168.0.1")
| 
| ELISP> (query-dns "www.gnus.org")
| "66.135.33.159"
`----

> Is there some configuration trick I can do to get a DNS server?

Set `dns-servers'?

  (setq dns-servers '("192.168.0.1"))

I'm not sure how to get the address of the DNS server on Windows;
probably `nslookup www.gnus.org' will show it.

Bye, Reiner.
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