a simple dns does not work

[Paul T. Root]

Most people forget the most important step after a kill -HUP,
and that is looking at the log file!!!!!! It tells you everything.

tail /var/log/messages

What does that say.



In a previous message, frank said:
> 
> linux running, named running. a private network 10.10.10.x
> I configured /etc/named.boot which difine the directory in
> /var/named. under the /var/named, I configured
> db.domain,db.127.0.0, db.10.10.10 and db.cache. also I configured
> /etc/host.conf and /etc/resolv.conf.When I have done this, I type
> the command "kill -HUP `cat /etc/run/named.pid`" to restart the
> named. Then I do the test using nslookup. Unfortunaly the screen
> give me such messages:
> ***can't find server name for address 10.10.10.103:no response
> from server
> ***Default servers are not available
> 
> my box's hostname is yoyo.domain.com with IP 10.10.10.103, I
> definitely put "yoyo IN A 10.10.10.103" and "@ IN NS
> yoyo.domain.com." I check the files and there should be no type
> error.
> 
> I track this for a whole week, but does not fix it. Any
> suggestion apprecaited.
> 
> 
> 
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