Problem with nameserver
Francisco J. Obispo S. (CNTI-REACCIUN)
fobispo at nic.ve
Wed Sep 19 18:13:12 UTC 2001
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:38:02PM +0200, Jeroen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> as I am completely new to this group, I don't know if it is the right one to
> post this. Anyway: for the last 4 hours the nameservers on
> www.hostnederland.nl (ns1.hostnederland.nl and ns2.hostnederland.nl) stopped
> working (without any reason, I did not change anything in the configuration
> of the nameserver). An nslookup at the local nameserver gives the following
> result:
>
> nslookup www.hostnederland.nl 212.204.236.241
> *** Can't find server name for address 212.204.236.241: Non-existent
> host/domain
> *** Default servers are not available
Means the server is running but it doesn't know anything about that zone (may had been rejected due to errors in the zone file)
>
> which means that servers are up and running but are not giving the right
> result. When I shutdown the nameservers the following result is given:
>
> nslookup www.hostnederland.nl 212.204.236.241
> *** Can't find server name for address 212.204.236.241: No response from
> server
> *** Default servers are not available
>
Means the server is DOWN
> "No response from server" instead of "Non-existent host/domain". Can
> somebody tell me why this happens and what the meaning of "Default servers
> are not available" is?
>
> Thank you.
> Jeroen Tekelenburg
> HostNederland.nl
>
>
>
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