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Date:      Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:21:44 -0500
From:      "Todd Reed" <ex279@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   DIG and NSLOOKUP...server fails
Message-ID:  <F26SakxJ5zHQE7mwOpQ0000db6c@hotmail.com>

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I've created my zone, boot, and reverse files; but when I do a nslookup, I 
get the following error

*** Can't find server name for address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: Server failed
*** Default servers are not available

If I do a DIG, I get:

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> mydomain.com
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      mydomain.com, type = A, class = IN

;; Total query time: 13 msec
;; FROM: hera.mydomain.com to SERVER: default -- xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
;; WHEN: Tue Aug 21 06:23:13 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 31


What is this telling me and where is it going wrong?  I've got the BIND and 
DNS grasshopper book and have been looking through all the DNS information 
for the past two days.

I'm new to setting up a DNS server, but surely it can't be this difficult.

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