Bind8 - No Default Server

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 11:24:08AM +0200, Hubert Schmid wrote:

> Have installed bind on a linux server. Only Intranet, range =
> 192.168.1.xxx, server is 192.168.1.20. If i use nslookup, i cannot find =
> the dns-server, but nslookup localhost 127.0.0.1 works, something is =
> missing, but what ? No external network is accessible, only intranet.
> 
> linux:/var/named # nslookup
> *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.20: Server failed
> *** Default servers are not available

nslookup always does a reverse lookup on the IP of the server. That failed.
Make your DNS correctly resolve 192.168.1.20 to a hostname.

> May  2 10:12:28 linux named[2802]: master zone "1.168.192.in-addr-arpa" =
> (IN) loaded (serial 20010502)

Obviously, tthere's no entry for 192.168.1.20 in that zone.

BTW, rather use dig:

% dig @127.0.0.1 -x 192.168.1.20

gives you what?