Can#t find server name for adress...

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Fri Feb 4 19:38:42 UTC 2000


On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 03:04:21AM +0100, Christian Clos wrote:
> Hello all,
> please can anybody help me.
> I am running BIND 8 (ps -aux tells me, named ist working)

	ist.de == is.en, right?  ;-)

> If I try do to a nslookup an the console, i get this error-messages:
> *** Can't find server name for address 216.149.216.99: No response from server
> *** Default servers are not available
> Thios is how my server looks like:
> eth0 216.149.216.98
> eth0:0 216.149.216.99
> /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> cchost01
> 216.149.216.98 localhost.localdomain
> 216.149.216.99 ns1.cc-ns.de
> I can ping both IP-Adresses
> So, what do i wrong, any hints from you???
> Thanx for your help
> Christian Clos
> christian.clos at cc-web.de
> Sorry, about my bad english, i hope you understand what my problem is
> Christian Clos
> christian.clos at cc-web.de
> Clos EDV-Dienstleistungen
> http://www.cc-web.de

You do not have reverse DNS set up, do you?  Nslookup requires this.
Nothing else does, although it is an extremely good idea to have it set
up.  So, name services could be working even if 'nslookup' is failing
in this manner.

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