nslookup <-> host

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9t1sos$afv at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Torsten Mueller  <torsten at archesoft.de> wrote:
>This means, that nslookup asks in this case ns2.xtremeweb.de
>to do a reverse lookup for itself
>before it asks ns2.xtremeweb.de for www.nethawk.de ?

Correct.

>ns2.xtremeweb.de can't do a reverse lookup for itself, cause
>i set recursion to no.

nslookup only does this if it's using a default server (from resolv.conf)
or a server specified on the nslookup command line.  If you do:

nslookup
>server ns2.xtremeweb.de

then it should work.

>Do you think, that i should enable recursion on
>ns2.xtremeweb.de for users who wish to see if their zone is
>correctly
>loaded but use i.e. a nslookup , which came with their
>distribution ?

No.  If users have problems, tell them to use a better tool than nslookup,
such as dig.

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