From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 24 23:04:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA02422 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:04:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA02414 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:04:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA04634; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:04:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:04:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Roland Krocin cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nslookup and named In-Reply-To: <3310BF5F.E83@netchicago.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 23 Feb 1997, Roland Krocin wrote: > Hello, > I'm running FBSD 2.1.6 and have recently been having a problem with > nslookup, namely when I do a (on the ns1 machine) > > % nslookup - ns1.netchicago.net > *** Can't find server name for address 205.164.13.70: Server failed > *** Default servers are not available > > ...and it falls back to the prompt. Yet when I run nslookup without any > parameters it goes to the default localhost (which is the same as the > ns1 machine) fine. The above machine is registered with internic and > appears in /etc/hosts. Is this some sort of a namedb zone problem (yes, > the machine is listed in the zone db file as well)? Thanks to everyone > in advance!! How about reverse name lookup? Are your PTRs up to date for this host? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major