dns lookup issue in windows client

[Ladislav Vobr]

how can you expect answer for google.com, when at the end you mentioned,
you have "recursion no". It has to recurse to give you answer. Or is it
some other problem you are troubleshooting?

Ladislav


KSP wrote:
> Saravanan,
> 
> Both clients are, in fact, behaving the same.  The difference is in the
> way each "nslookup" utility is written.  The "nslookup" on your linux box,
> (written by ISC), is saving you some screen real estate and not returning
> the root hint it's receiving from your server, 192.168.1.5.  On the other
> hand, the "nslookup" command on your Windows machine, (written by
> Microsoft), is.  If you were to use the "dig" utility on your linux box:
> 
> [guest at test1 guest]$ dig @192.168.1.5 google.com a
> 
> you'd get back the same root hints you're seeing on the windows client.
> As has been mentioned on this list before, the root hints are hard-coded
> into the source code of most versions of Bind 9, so you may think you've
> disabled them, but you really haven't.
> 
> (Another item to add to the "nslookup is bad" list -- people expect a
> utility with the same name to behave in a consistent manner).
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> ksp
> 
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, saravanan ganapathy wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hai,
>>   I am running bind9 on my linux box for my internal
>>usage. It works fine for my internal domains.
>>
>>Problem
>>-------
>>
>>nslookup on linux client
>>--------------------------
>>[guest at test1 guest]$ nslookup -sil google.com
>>Server:         192.168.1.5
>>Address:        192.168.1.5#53
>>
>>Non-authoritative answer:
>>*** Can't find google.com: No answer
>>
>>nslookup on windows client
>>---------------------------
>>
>>C:\>nslookup google.com
>>Server:  dns-slave1.abc.com
>>Address:  192.168.1.5
>>
>>Name:    google.com
>>Served by:
>>- H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>>
>>
>>- I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>>
>>
>>- J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>>
>>
>>- K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>>
>>
>>- L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>>
>>
>>- M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>>
>>
>>- A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>>
>>
>>- B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>>
>>
>>- C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>>
>>
>>- D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>>
>>
>>I have disabled root server config in my dns server
>>and include "recursion no".
>>
>>Why windows client behaves like this?
>>I need windows clients also response like linux
>>client.
>>
>>Pls help me
>>
>>Sarav
>>
>>
>>
>>
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