A question on setting up DNS

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Wed Oct 11 03:14:56 UTC 2000


	The server that owns the reverse domain PTR record can't find the record.
You need
  to go up and down the tree and find out which server is the master for
the record.

			Danny

At 06:24 AM 10/10/00 +0000, Steve wrote:
>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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