Can't connect using pdnsd

[rakan6]

For some odd reason I can't seem to connect to the internet with pdnsd running. I can connect and surf without it running, or with polipo as the proxy, but as soon as pdnsd enters the picture it just looks for the site, and times out.

I've just looked at the pdnsd website and I see that pthreads can sometimes cause a problem. I don't recall noticing that in the ebuild when I looked for use flags to disable, so it may be that (hopefully). In that case, I apologise for this posting. If that's not the problem, then please let me know if anyone else has been unable to connect to websites with pdnsd.

Way back when I had gentoo on the desktop it worked (when I didn't screw up the proxy chain ordering), but now I'm trying to put it on a laptop using a wireless net connection.

Unfortunately I'm at work right now, so I can't provide configuration files, so I'll have to say what I've tried.

Started off using dhcp, changed to static ip specified in /etc/conf.d/wireless. Essid, ip, broadcast, netmask and route are specified in that file. Nothing is in net now that isn't commented out.

Resolv.conf: used the initial two servers dhcp originally detected. Tried two dns servers found listed in these forums as good alternatives. Tried using no servers, tried using only the 'server=' address specified in the global section of pdnsd.conf

Hosts has 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost, my static ip 192.168.1.50 laptop.dean.ca laptop, and at one point or another 127.0.0.2 localhost.localdomain localhost. It also has some ipv6 addresses in it that I've left alone.

pdnsd.conf: global: specified the server as 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, any, 0.0.0.0, and commented it out. I used interface=eth0, which I believe it balked at. I can't recall if there were other things in that section that were tweaked.

Server: tried to use the two dns servers specified in resolv.conf, the two from the forums, my router, none at all. Used interface, and also turned it off. Used the option to take the ips directly from resolv.conf, and used an alternate resolv.conf I placed in /etc/pdnsd. I don't recall any other changes in this section, aside from turning debug on and off.

The other sections I didn't change except to comment on or off, as I didn't particularly understand them.

Pdnsd-ctl status showed the test results come back as 1, reports success, and that the servers are available. I do get a message in debug saying the query format is strange, or somesuch.

I've also tried rebuilding pdnsd.conf using the minimum entries.

I'm hoping I've missed something obvious here. One thing I didnt' do was reboot or logoff and on between changes. I only did /etc/init.d/pdnsd restart, or the same for net.