A question on setting up DNS

[M.Ashcraft at epixtech.com]

Steve,

Thor meant for you to look at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-192.html

This document covers DNS setup and what your poblem is.

In short nslookup is trying to first verify the name of your dns server 
and failing.  Dig may still work for your testing.

You need to set up the zone 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa and populate it with a 
PTR record for your name server.  This requires changes to named.conf and 
the creation of a db file.

Good Luck,

Mike
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Mike Ashcraft, Sr. Network Engineer
epixtech, Inc.
M.Ashcraft at epixtech.com





Steve <yhkuo at cse.cuhk.edu.hk>
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10/10/00 12:24 AM

 
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        Subject:        Re: A question on setting up DNS

the content of resolv.conf: 

                 search abccom.com
                 nameserver 192.168.1.1

is the setting ok?

Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net> wrote:

>                                What's in your resolv.conf file?  You 
need that set up correctly in order
> for
>   nslookup to find the nameserver you intend to use to do the lookups.

>                                                Danny
> At 06:52 PM 10/9/00 +0300, Thor Kottelin wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>Steve wrote:
>>> 
>>> It's my first time to set up the DNS server.
>>
>>> *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.1: Server failed
>>> *** Default servers are not available
>>
>>My guess is that you don't have a PTR record for 
1.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa.
>>Please see RIPE-192 for help on setting up your own DNS server, 
including
>>reverse service.
>>
>>Thor
>>
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