Can't find name server address ... Question

[Brad Knowles]

At 1:05 PM +0000 5/24/01, OTR Comm wrote:

>  I am trying to do am nslookup off a name server called
>  nst.goldenhosting.com and I get:
>
>  [WA:root at pri /root]# nslookup redtail-creations.com
>  ns1.goldenhosting.com
>  *** Can't find server name for address 216.246.89.5: Server failed
>  *** Default servers are not available

	Don't use nslookup.  It is an evil program, and should not be 
used to try to obtain information from the DNS.  Among other things, 
it tries to do a reverse lookup of the IP address associated with the 
nameserver(s) it is using, and if that reverse lookup fails, it craps 
out.

	Try using "dig" instead.


	That said, you will need to get reverse DNS fixed for 
216.246.89.5 and the other machines in your network, otherwise you 
will have other problems as well.


	Finally, please do not use "NOSPAM" garbage in your address.  The 
newsgroup is gatewayed to a mailing list, and putting "NOSPAM" 
garbage in your address is considered highly offensive.  Moreover, 
most address harvesting programs I know of are intelligent enough to 
remove garbage like that, so it doesn't do you any good.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

/*        efdtt.c  Author:  Charles M. Hannum <root at ihack.net>          */
/*       Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody         */
/*     Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers        */
/*                                                                      */
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