dns server doesn't know itself (NT BIND v 4.9.5)

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Aug 9 18:05:40 UTC 1999


In article <29830.934220550 at kludge.mpn.cp.philips.com>,
Jim Reid  <jim at mpn.cp.philips.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Hammill <shammill at earthlink.net> writes:
>
>    Steve> Here's the NSLOOKUP error message:
>    Steve> *** can't find server name for 10.1.1.254: non-existent domain
>    Steve> *** can't find server name for 10.1.1.254: non-existent domain
>    Steve> server: unknown
>    Steve> address:10.1.1.254
>
>    Steve> ping by name works...
>    Steve> nslookup works once I issue the server command...
>
>Looks like you have a version of nslookup that likes to make obsolete
>inverse queries - not the same thing as a reverse lookup!

No it doesn't.  That produces a completely different error message.

The error message he got indicates that he doesn't have a PTR record for
254.1.1.10.in-addr.arpa on his server.

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