nslookup w/ BIND 8.1.2

[Michael Voight]

FullName wrote:
> 
> What can cause an "unspecified error" message when doing an nslookup
> using BIND 8.1.2?  O'Reilly's book on DNS and BIND gave what I thought
> was an unsatisfactory explanation to this message.  The "unspecified
> error" occurred when I did "ls my.domain" on my own domain name.
> Doing an nslookup on a machine running BIND 4.9.7 using the same zone
> files returns no error message.
> 
> Thx in advance,
> ACL

Were there any errors when loading the zone?
Do queries in the zone work?
Are you allowing this server to do a zone transfer? (an ls does a zone
transfer)
Check the log for errors.

Michael