DNS failure

[Barry Margolin]

In article <199912131548.HAA28147 at isrv3.pa.vix.com>,
Marek Narkiewicz  <marek at intercreations.com> wrote:
>I can successfully launch my named with no error messages. When i try to
>use it (using 
>nslookup) however I get this error message:
>*** Can't find server name for address 212.41.41.71: Non-existent host/domain
>and nslookup defaults to the second DNS server listed.
>Is this possibly because my server's host name doesn't match what is
>reurned by reverse 
>dns? As I am not authoritative for that I have to wait for my isp to
>update their settings.

No, it means that there is no reverse DNS for the server's address at all.
nslookup won't use a default server unless that server is able to perform
reverse DNS of its own address.

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