Newbie: bind8: is it running ?

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 06:05:26PM +0200, Sven Rassmann wrote:
> 
> Help! I don't know whats wrong.
> 
> when i try a nslookup i only get 
> 
> dns:/EuroSys # nslookup 127.0.0.1
> *** Can't find server name for address 10.80.1.10: No response from
> server
> *** Default servers are not available

FAQ.  You don't have a reverse DNS domain set up that includes
10.80.1.10.  This does not affect DNS performance.  It is a quirk of
'nslookup'.

...

> Is nscd needed? i think its doing nothing else that named can do.
> So I don' know if there is an error in my configs or if it has somethig
> to do with my SuSE system.

It has been implicated in several problems.  You might want to remove
it.

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