Problems with lookup

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Fri Aug 9 17:02:41 UTC 2002


John Colby <jcolby296 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi All,

> 	I am currently having trouble with Bind.  I have bind running on
> a
> small server that does primary DNS for half dozen domains and also
> acts as a caching server for a small LAN. Currently, I have a problem
> with it looking about addresses for the LAN.

> Whenever I do a nslookup from and XP client for the domain, I get the
> following...

> nslookup google.com
> Server:  ip-192-168-0-16.local
> Address:  192.168.0.16

> Name:    google.com
> Served by:
> - E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET

>           com
> - F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET

>           com
> - G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET

>           com
> - H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET

>           com
> - I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET

>           com
> - J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET

>           com
> - K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET

>           com
> - L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET

>           com
> - M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET

>           com
> - A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET

>           com


> If I do a  nslookup on the server itself, it looks it up fine.
> Then if I retry the lookup on the client machine for that same
> domain, it works...

> So it basically only works if I do the lookup on the server itself
> first...

> Any ideas?


Looks like you dont allow recursion for the XP client



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