Resolve Error

[Barry Margolin]

In article <dvhdnk$2h5n$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Khaled Hussein" <khaled at palnet.com> wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I found something, when I configure the nameserver in the resolv.conf file
> to the real IP address of the server it works fine but when I put 127.0.0.1
> or localhost it give me the same error 

First of all, you can't put a hostname in resolv.conf -- it has to be an 
address (otherwise you have infinite recursion -- you need to use the 
nameserver to resolve the location of the nameserver).

It sounds like there's something wrong with the reverse zone for 
127.in-addr.arpa on your server.  When nslookup starts, it tries to do a 
reverse lookup of the server address.

> 
> Any suggestion please 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> **********************************
> Khaled J. Hussein 
> System Administrator           
> Palnet Communications Ltd.
> Hadara Technologies
> http://www.palnet.com 
> khaled at palnet.com
> Tel.02/2403434. Fax.02/2403430 
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf
> Of funkyjunky28 at gmail.com
> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 1:57 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Resolve Error
> 
> Khaled,
> Couldn't get address for your DNS server?
> Are you allowing recursive lookups for that subnet (or DNS 3 for that
> matter)?
> May try resolving an address that is on your DNS server first (nslookup
> without any options---or "dig @{IP of DNS3} -x {IP of DNS3 or other DNS
> server}.  Then work your way to the outside world.  Check acl's in
> named.conf.  Check your named.log, default.log and syslog for clues.
> Otherwise, please submit logs and maybe we can get a better idea of
> what's going on.
> 
> One more thing to suggest:  I would highly recommend using "dig"
> instead of "nslookup".  Nslookup is buggy and without options can
> assume a lot, yet tell you very little.
> Good luck!

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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