nslookup: giving error when used with UDP

[Barry Finkel]

=?iso-8859-1?q?sekhar=20n?= <sekhar_nv at yahoo.co.in> wrote:

>i am facing the problem with DNS/BIND.
> 
>when I tried nslookup (from the machine with Tru64 Unix OS) without any option (meaning it uses UDP to send 
>the packets), the server is returning the error.
>nslookup hostname
>can't find hostname: Server failed
> 
>When I used nslookup -vc option(if you mention -vc option, then it uses 
>TCP to send packets), the server is responding properly.
> 
>nslookup -vc hostname
>This time it is giving the IP address of the hostname by using the default server.
> 
>Any help is appreciated.

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