Problem with primary DNS setup

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Tue Feb 8 16:29:00 UTC 2000


In article <5D949A9376E1D211BEB20008C7B1F3E6010D3FC7 at WMGEX01>,
Belknap, Christopher <Christopher.Belknap at wmg.com> wrote:
>I have set up all the necessary files for a primary dns(db.cache,
>db.domain.com, db.in-addr.arpa, and db.127.0.0), and I start up in.named. I
>check the syslog for any errors, and there aren't. But, when I try to run
>nslookup, I get the following message:
>
>*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed
>*** Default servers are not available
>
>What does this mean?

It means that you didn't do db.127.0.0 right.  Without more information we
can't tell what you did wrong.

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