don't understand why my dns work not ....

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Jul 12 19:46:13 UTC 2001


In article <9iksrm$ad9 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Sébastien BOLLINGH [Wolfram] <sebastien.bollingh at ecolo.be> wrote:
>I'm trying to configure a Linux (Suse 7.1) Machine and now it's the DNS
>part.
>I've 2 IP on 1 Ethernet Card, this 2 conf files and nslookup say all the
>time:
>"*** Can't find server name for address 193.121.149.117: No response from
>server"

You need to create a reverse domain for your address block, or use "dig"
instead of "nslookup" to test your server.  nslookup requires that there be
a reverse DNS entry for the server's address, even though this is not
required by any protocol.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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