Strange NSLOOKUP behavior

[Charles Bodley]

Would that apply to this as well? Am trying to get deligated but didn't
think it had gone throu yet. Is the reverse domain deligated and I'm just
misconfigured? (This would make me very sad since I've been ranting at them
for 4 days.)



nslookup 216.68.75.100 ns.psi.net
Note:  nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead.  Run nslookup with
the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
Server:         ns.psi.net
Address:        38.8.48.2#53

** server can't find 100.75.68.216.in-addr.arpa.: SERVFAIL

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Barry Margolin
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 1:30 PM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Re: Strange NSLOOKUP behavior


In article <9m615n$d2k at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
morgan lynder  <klaus_knomi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Hello,
>I have Bind 9.1.3 installed on Solaris 8. My server is
>able to answer queries that originate from the outside
>world. However the ohter machines on the network fail
>trying to querie the nameserver. The error is:
>
>atfish# /usr/sbin/nslookup
>*** Can't find server name for address 216.203.228.98:
>Server failed
>*** Default servers are not available
>
>
>Now this error message is returned immediately.
>Usually when this error message appears the nslookup
>command will time out before returning this,
>indicating a broken nslookup binary. Since this
>message is returned instantly I don't think this is
>the case. All the machines do indeed have a route to

"Server failed" means that the nameserver responded with a SERVFAIL error
code when queried.  Your nameserver is unable to translate its own address
to a hostname, although the reverse domain is delegated to it.

You need to fix the reverse DNS on your nameserver.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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