Problem with nameserver

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9oanmc$etu at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Francisco J. Obispo S. (CNTI-REACCIUN) <fobispo at nic.ve> wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:38:02PM +0200, Jeroen wrote:
>> 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)

No it doesn't.  It means there's no PTR record for
241.236.204.212.in-addr.arpa.  It never even got around to asking it about
the www.hostnederland.nl domain.

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