newbie BIND/DNS question, nslookup woes

[Michael Kjorling]

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Set up reverse DNS for your internal IP span, or use a real tool like
dig.

Newbie Admin's guide to NSLookup: log in as root and type

# rm -f `which nslookup`; man dig


Michael Kjörling


On Dec 3 2001 13:02 -0500, Fred Randall wrote:

> I set up BIND on a sparc4 running Solaris 7 as a caching nameserver
> pointing towards my isp's DNS.  All other machines on my network point
> towards this server for DNS and can browse the internet, email, use
> usenet, ping, etc. which requires DNS for name resolution.  When I try
> nslookup I get the following message:
>
> bash-2.05# nslookup
> *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.30:Non-existent
> host/domain
> *** Default servers are not available
>
> but as proof that the server is working, if I try this:
>
> bash-2.05# ping theonion.com
> PING theonion.com: (216.165.161.17): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 216.165.161.17: icmp_seq=0 ttl=239 time=424 ms
> 64 bytes from 216.165.161.17: icmp_seq=1 ttl=239 time=272 ms
> 64 bytes from 216.165.161.17: icmp_seq=2 ttl=239 time=331 ms
> ^C
> ----theonion.com PING Statistics----
> 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max = 272/342/424 ms
>
> is works perfectly.  Can someonepoint me towards an answer to this
> problem?   Below I have pasted my configuration files
> (/etc/named.conf, /var/named/db.cache and /var/named/db.127.0.0)
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> fred

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