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From: "Daniel Crichton" <danielc at helio.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Delegating an in-addr.arpa domain to myself (cheating, I know!)
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 09:55:31 -0000
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"Mark Landin" <m555 at earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> My only problem deals with nslookup ... when I start it, it hangs up
> for 15-20 seconds and then says "Can't find name server for address
> 192.1.1.11: Non-existent domain", then says no servers are available.
> I can use the 'server' directive to make it work after that, but it's
> still a hassle.

Why not pass your DNS server name on the nslookup command line. Not sure
what *nix syntax is, but for NT it's

nslookup - www.xxx.yyy.zzz

where www.xxx.yyy.zzz is the IP address of your DNS server.

That would at least get nslookup running immediately.

Dan