Interesting little situation

[Barry Margolin]

In article <008d01bf453e$006bd8e0$0f3517cb at webserver.seol.net.au>,
Andrew Duxorth <awd at seol.net.au> wrote:
>Hi,
>I have setup a domain on pri and sec servers, and all appear to be fine
>internally and externally.
>I do a  nslookup on the domain (from Pri box)(checking both servers) and get
>a valid response.
>If I do the same thing on the sec box I get an invalid hostname when I use
>the sec for the lookup
>(server ns2).  Pri come back fine.  Any other box the entries come up
>properly for both
>pri and sec. Situation not urgent as the domain is working as setup.
>All the entries are there on the sec.  It makes no sense.

When are you getting the error, when you give the "server ns2" command or
when you then try to look up a name in the domain?  What's in the sec box's
/etc/resolv.conf?

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