Changed IP Address now no nslookup

tmaestas at dnsconsultants.com tmaestas at dnsconsultants.com
Sat Mar 10 03:30:47 UTC 2001



	nslookup is unable to reverse-resolve xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
	This is a (somewhat silly) requirement of nslookup.  Either
	insure your box can reverse resolve it's IP, or don't use
	nslookup.

-Tim


On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Scott Stavretis wrote:

> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have just changed IP addresses on a slackware linux box running bind 8x
> The change over went well except, now I cannot use nslookup  I have the
> new IP address in resolv.conf
> 
> Whenever I nslookup or nslookup - xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (my ip address  I get)
> *** Can't find server name for address x.x.x.x: Non-existent host/domain
> *** Default servers are not available
> 
> ping and host seem to resolve domains okay.
> 
> Also apache seems not to be working but I think this is somehow related to
> the DNS issue.
> 
> Any ideas/comments/suggestions would be welcome
> 
> Regards
> Scott Stavretis
> 
> 



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