what does this error mean

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

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> johnjohnz <jjohnzNOjjSPAM at hotmail.com.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > the site has a dns server but we are NOT connected to the
> > internet ... the dns is for internal use only ... so i guess
> > there is some slight misconfiguration there .. or not. The
> > domain is real and registered, its just we don't have inet
> > connectivity as yet
> 
> When running an isolated dns-server it needs to know everything.
> This is the same function an root-servers. Simplest way 
> for a single server is to create all zones where you have 
> resources, both forward and reverse zones.
> 
> In your case it don't know how to get responsible servers
> for the ip net 192.9.1 (which you btw should leave, it's not
> yours and it will only create future problems if you continue to use)
> Use 192.168 or any other rfc1918 address!
> 
> peter h
> 
> > here is the error
> 
> > Jul 27 09:16:40 fred249 named[15725]: sysquery: findns error
> > (NXDOMAIN) on fred249.mydomain.org.1.9.192.in-addr.arpa?

	In the master file for 1.9.192.in-addr.arpa add a period
	to the end of the NS record which refers to fred249.mydomain.org
	as it should be "fred249.mydomain.org.".  Without the
	period the current origin is appended.

	NXDOMAIN means No Such Domain.

	Mark
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