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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:04:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Roland Krocin <roland@netchicago.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nslookup and named
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.970224230357.4530O-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3310BF5F.E83@netchicago.net>

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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




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