DNS Lookup Failed

[Allie Syadiqin]

I managed to solve the problem. Seems that there was a syntax error 
when loading named.conf. Thanks to Barry & Pete for all the help.

----- Original Message -----
From: Barry Margolin <barmar at genuity.net>
Date: Friday, January 11, 2002 4:42 am
Subject: Re: DNS Lookup Failed

> In article <a1kppe$laf at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
> Allie Syadiqin <allie at time.net.my> wrote:
> >
> >FYI, I am running 2 nameservers on a single machine. I know that 
> its 
> >not wise, but its only on a temporary basis until I can get 
> another 
> >machine up. Anyway, here's the info on the nameservers :-
> >
> >ns1.vserver.com.my : 202.56.152.174
> >ns2.vserver.com.my : 202.56.152.175
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> It looks like it's having trouble loading the root hints file, or 
> maybe the
> entry for the root hints is missing from named.conf.  I get this 
> when I try
> to ask it for the root servers:
> 
> % dig . ns @ns1.vserver.com.my +norec
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> . ns @ns1.vserver.com.my +norec 
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 14292
> ;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;	., type = NS, class = IN
> 
> ;; Total query time: 277 msec
> ;; FROM: tools.genuity.com to SERVER: ns1.vserver.com.my  
> 202.56.152.174;; WHEN: Thu Jan 10 15:41:03 2002
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 17  rcvd: 17
> 
> -- 
> Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> Genuity, Woburn, MA
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