unable to get a nslookup on windows client

[Chris Buxton]

It sounds like perhaps the Windows machine's local resolving name  
server doesn't know how to look up the reverse zone that contains the  
PTR record for 192.168.0.244. Maybe a forward or stub zone definition  
is missing?

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On Nov 19, 2007, at 5:38 AM, Agnello George wrote:

> HI
> I am trying to test my DNS ( bind- dlz ) server ( 192.168.03.244)    
> from a
> remote windows client ( 192.168.0.209 ) . I have a domain  called  
> sample.com
> . The hostname of my r DNS server  is testserver.com .
> When i do a nslookup on the server for sample.com it returns me the
> following :
> [root at bind ~]# nslookup sample.com
> Server:         127.0.0.1
> Address:        127.0.0.1#53
>
> Name:   sample.com
> Address: 192.168.0.244
>
> when i do a nslookup for 192.168.0.244 i get the following on my DNS  
> server
>
> [root at bind ~]# nslookup 192.168.0.244
> Server:         127.0.0.1
> Address:        127.0.0.1#53
>
> 244.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa      name = ns1.testserver.com.
>
> but wheni try to do a nslookup for 192.168.0.244 on my windows  
> client i get
> the following i can how ever ping to 192.168.0.244
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Admin>nslookup ns1.testserver.com
> *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.244: No response from
> server
> *** Default servers are not available
> Server:  UnKnown
> Address:  192.168.0.244
>
> *** UnKnown can't find ns1.testserver.com: No response from server
>
> On my DNS server using the command "elinks" i can view the webpage for
> sample.com hosted on another remote machine.
>
> I have disable iptables a did a setenforce to 0 , but still get the  
> same
> above resulth on a remote windows client.
> Where exactly am i goiing wrong ?
>
> Thanks for al the help
>
> -- 
>
> Agnello . G .Dsouza
>
>
>