dns quit working

[Kevin Darcy]

Simply put: nslookup sucks.

Either a) humor nslookup by creating the proper reverse entries for
209.210.192.5 and/or 209.210.192.6, or b) just dump nslookup forever and
use dig instead.


- Kevin

hanson_harry at hotmail.com wrote:

> seems to start ok; cont see any errors:
>
> Oct 16 13:17:56 ns0 named[954]: master zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA"
> (IN) loaded (serial 2830955996)
> Oct 16 13:17:56 ns0 named[954]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
> Oct 16 13:17:56 ns0 named[954]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
> Oct 16 13:17:56 ns0 named[954]: listening on [209.210.192.5].53 (eth0)
> Oct 16 13:17:56 ns0 named[954]: listening on [209.210.192.6].53
> (eth0:0)
> Oct 16 13:17:56 ns0 named[954]: Forwarding source address is
> [0.0.0.0].1047
> Oct 16 13:17:56 ns0 named: named startup succeeded
> Oct 16 13:17:56 ns0 named[955]: group = 25
> Oct 16 13:17:56 ns0 named[955]: user = named
> Oct 16 13:17:56 ns0 named[955]: Ready to answer queries.
> Oct 16 13:18:02 ns0 named[955]: ns_forw: query(www.current.com) All
> possible A RR's lame
>
> however none of the machines with this ns set can resolve dns.
>
> nslookup quit working:
>
> [root at ns0 arpa]# nslookup ns0.cet.com
> *** Can't find server name for address 209.210.192.5: Server failed
> *** Can't find server name for address 209.210.192.6: Server failed
> *** Default servers are not available
>
> however dig does work:
>
>  <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> ns0.cet.com
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL:
> 2
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;      ns0.cet.com, type = A, class = IN
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> ns0.cet.com.            1D IN A         209.210.192.5
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> cet.com.                1D IN NS        ns0.cet.com.
> cet.com.                1D IN NS        ns1.cet.com.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns0.cet.com.            1D IN A         209.210.192.5
> ns1.cet.com.            1D IN A         209.210.192.6
>
> ;; Total query time: 0 msec
> ;; FROM: ns0 to SERVER: default -- 209.210.192.5
> ;; WHEN: Tue Oct 16 13:23:04 2001
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 29  rcvd: 109
>
> anyone help me understand what is going on?
>
> thanks.