Bind doesn't respond to XP nslookup?

[Danny Mayer]

aklist_bind at enigmedia.com wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> Sort of newbie question here...
> 
> I have BIND 9.3.0 running on FreeBSD 5.3, with two views, a "local" one for 
> my 192.168.0.x subnet and the other for everyone else.
> 
> My "local" view has "recusion yes;", and it only has the root hints, reverse 
> zones for 192.168.1/24 and 127/8, and my local zone file for my domain.
> 
> Using a WinXP sp2 box on my local subnet, if I try to nslookup I get "DNS 
> request timed out.", even though it's correctly resolving the IP of the NS.
> 
> However if I use SamSpade to perform a dig using the FreeBSD box as NS, I 
> get normal responses from the NS.
> 
> Any ideas? 
>

It works for me, though I use dig and not nslookup which is a really 
badly behaved tool.

Try stopping the DNS Client Service. It not useful anyway.

Danny