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[Will Yardley]

patel nehal wrote:
> 
> And when I use nslookup on win2000 client it shows me an error lik ::
> 
> ***Can't find server name for address 202.164.100.8: Non-existent domain.
> ***Default servers are not available
> Default Server: UnKnown
> Address: 202.164.100.8

so....... what's the progress on that faq? anything i can do to help?

i can probably volunteer webspace on our machines if no one else has
already done so..... anyone want to help write the thing?

i nominate this question as the first question to be answered (along
with 'i heard nslookup sucks.... why?')

(oh and the answer to the question:
aura% dig -x 202.164.100.8

; <<>> DiG 9.2.0rc9 <<>> -x 202.164.100.8
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 61461
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;8.100.164.202.in-addr.arpa.    IN      PTR

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
100.164.202.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN      SOA     dns.wilnetonline.net.in.
root.wilnetonline.net.in. 10005 10800 1200 604800 86400

there's no reverse info for this IP, so nslookup complains.  you should
stop using nslookup, and get whoever is in charge of reverse dns for
that netblock to setup a PTR record for 100.164.202.in-addr.arpa.

sorry for the grumpy answer.... it's been a long day.
i am serious about the faq part though. that way we can say 'read the
faq'

w

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