simple DNS - NXDOMAIN

[philip]

hostname and hostname -f can return "localhost"
nslookup -sil yahoo.com can return the right IP-addr.

"Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message
news:c4vdt5$2hiu$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> philip wrote:
>
> >installed Fedora 1, bind-9.2.2.P3-9
> >hostname is localhost, the default one, changed nothing on the setting,
> >/etc/init.d/named start
> >nslookup -sil localhost    or used (127.0.0.1)
> >    Server : 192.168.1.15
> >    Address: 192.168.1.15#53
> >
> >** server can't find localhost : NXDOMAIN
> >
>
> NXDOMAIN means "no such name". Apparently you haven't defined
> "localhost" in your root zone or in any of the domains in your search
> list (if you use one).
>
> Perhaps you'd be better off looking up a fully-qualified name.
>
>
>                                                       - Kevin
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