Default Server : Unknown (Still works fine)

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Oct 25 23:21:27 UTC 1999


In article <7v218k$btu$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <iltiaz at my-deja.com> wrote:
>Hi Everybody,
>I have Install DNS Server on my site. Before this we were using ISP DNS
>Server. Machines using my DNS works properly except to the fact that
>when I run NSLOOKUP command in DOS at my machine , it gives me the my
>DNS Server IP Address but it doesn't give host name of DNS Server.

It sounds like you haven't configured reverse DNS for the IP address of
your DNS server.

>Under Default Server it shows Unknown. Even with that it is working
>fine.  I tried to ping IP, host, Cname everything works.
>Secondly machines using ISP DNS Server cannot ping to my machines like
>ping machine.domain.net. It gives Bad IP address message.
>Can anybody tell me what am I doing wrong?.

Have you updated the registration of your domain to point to your DNS
server?

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