nslookup problems

[Michael Voight]

BIND queries ARE backward compatible, otherwise worldwide DNS would
fail. The messages indicate the authoritative servers for the reverse
zone is NOT accepting queries from your system.

Michael Voight

Lex Hensels wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >From the moment our nameservers have started running Bind 8.1.2 (and 8.2 and
> 8.2.1 for that matter) we are having difficulties with nslookup crashing on
> SunOS 4.1.x systems:
> 
>   # nslookup
>   *** Can't find server name for address 130.161.180.1: Query refused
>   *** Can't find server name for address 130.161.180.65: Query refused
>   *** Can't find initialize address for server : Timed out
>   Default Server:  localhost
>   Bus error
>   #
> 
> The /etc/resolv.conf looks like this:
> 
>   domain        rc.tudelft.nl
>   nameserver    130.161.180.1
>   nameserver    130.161.180.65
> 
> I strongly suspect the makers of Bind to have changed the responses to certain
> queries in such a way that they are no longer backwards compatible with older
> versions of the resolver routines.
> 
> Any comments on that?
> 
> Regards,
> 
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