Changed IP Address now no nslookup

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:04:42PM +1100, 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.


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This is an 'nslookup' problem, not a DNS problem - except that you
obviously haven't bothered to create a reverse lookup zone for your new
IP address.


For its own reasons, 'nslookup' will decide that a machine that can't
name itself isn't much of a name server, and will refuse to work with
it - when all other programs [as you note] happily do so.


Solutions - upgrade to a current version of BIND that uses a snooty but
damaged version of 'nslookup' that doesn't have this behaviour, or use
'dig' or 'host'.


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> Also apache seems not to be working but I think this is somehow related to
> the DNS issue.

I doubt it.  That opinion has as much basis as you gave us, which is
very little.  ;->

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