Cannot do nslookup

[Vu Pham ( Sivell )]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Fair" <fairm at hotmail.com>
To: <bind-users at isc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 3:55 PM
Subject: Cannot do nslookup


>
> Hello
>
> I cannot do an nslookup for a PC that does not use my DNS Server.  I can
> ping it.
>
> My reverse file looks like:
> @ IN radius1.pgtc.com. root at pgtc.com(
> 2000080201 ; serial
> 3600 ; refresh
> 900 ; retry
> 1209600 ; expire
> 36000 ; default_ttl
> )
> 3 IN PTR pro2.pgtc.com.
> 4 IN PTR radius1.pgtc.com.
> 5 IN PTR radius2.pgtc.com.
> 2 IN PTR pro1.pgtc.com.
> @ IN NS radius1.pgtc.com.
> ________________________________________________________
> My Forward file looks like
> @ IN SOA radius1.pgtc.com root at pgtc.com(
> 2000080201 ; serial
> 3600 ; refresh
> 900 ; retry
> 1209600 ; expire
> 43200 ; default_ttl
> )
> @ IN MX 5 pro1.pgtc.com.
> @ IN NS radius1.pgtc.com.
> radius1 IN A 207.2.221.4
> pro1 IN A 207.2.221.2
> pro2 IN A 207.2.221.3
> radius2 IN A 207.2.221.5
> www IN CNAME pro1.pgtc.com
> ftp IN CNAME pro1.pgtc.com
> mail IN CNAME pro1.pgtc.com
> _________________________________________
> I don't get any errors when named restarts, my resolv.conf file has the
> correct lines and the named.conf file points to the correct files.
>
> I would appreciate any help
> TIA\
> Mike


It may be not the reason, but can  we use @ in the email address part in the
SOA record ?
And you also need to  have the keyword SOA in the reverse file.

Vu Pham