newbie pains

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:48:07PM -0600, wcbutler at uswest.net wrote:
> I have configured my bind 8.2.2-p5 dns on SuSE according to the HOW-TO and
> other documentation as I found it.  I have also used webadmin to help with
> the named.conf setup.  Everything looks right; dig on the local host and
> itservit.com zones seems to be returning what it should -- based upon my
> limited experience.  My ISP (uswest.net) has their dns server
> (ns1.uswest.net) set up as my secondary.  But nslookup tells me it "Can't
> find server name for address 216.160.153.57: Non-existant host/domain.  I
> need help.  I've spend a couple of days trying to resolve this (pun
> initended) and can't figure out what is wrong.  I will be very grateful to
> those who can help me with my education in this.  I don't know if it is
> relevant or not but I am running SuSE on an AMD-K2 300mhz.  Also I

This is a peculiarity of 'nslookup'.  You don't have reverse DNS set up
for your name server's address.  This does not affect your normal DNS
resolution.

> downloaded and set up dnswalk but when I execute ./dnswalk it tells me, "No
> such file or directory" even though ls shows it plain as day.  ????  I feel
> frustrated.

Do an 'ls | od -c | more' to find the hidden characters.  There may be
another explanation, but I am assuming that you have, multiple times,
typed in  v e r y   c a r e f u l l y  the command one character at a
time, so as to avoid mistakes.

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