Caching only DNS question.

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:55:56PM -0500, Rob Yale wrote:
> I have a network that consists of a Linux Router, a private 10.X.X.X
> network, and a DMZ.  The private network is served by a Samba server.  I
> successfully installed a caching-only server on the Samba machine; it seems
> to be resolving names swimmingly.  The problem is with the NT clients.  I
> set the NT machine's DNS (in the network control panel) to point to the IP
> of the Samba machine that has 'named' running on it, but I can't seem to get
> it working.  When I run nslookup, it comes back with the message the
> server's name can't be found, and in addition, DNS lookups fail.  Is there
> any additional configuration I need to do in order to get the name server to
> provide name resolution for the entire private network?

FAQ.

This is an 'nslookup' bug.  You don't have your reverse DNS zones set
up.  Try (a) using dig and (b) putting in your reverse DNS.

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