Non-authoritative answer

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 07:25:57PM +0800, Allan T. Parreno wrote:
> why is it that i got a non-authoritative answer during i lookup my own
> domain?
> 
> [test at sun1 test]# nslookup
> Defualt Server: sun1.iloilo.fapenet.org
> Address: 202.134.244.1
> 
> >sun1.iloilo.fapenet.org
> Server: sun1.iloilo.fapenet.org
> Address: 202.134.244.1
> 
> Non-Authoritative answer:
> Name: sun1.iloilo.fapenet.org
> Address: 202.134.244.1
> 
> but when i try to lookup in reverse it work fine
> 
> [test at sun1 test]# nslookup
> Defualt Server: sun1.iloilo.fapenet.org
> Address: 202.134.244.1
> 
> >202.134.244.1
> Server: sun1.iloilo.fapenet.org
> Address: 202.134.244.1
> 
> Name: sun1.iloilo.fapenet.org
> Address: 202.134.244.1
> 
> do i miss something or someone could explain me further.
> 
> thanks.

Your forward DNS zone has errors.  Your reverse DNS zone does not.
Check your 'syslog' output for what the errors are.  This will be in
different files, depending on how your /etc/syslog.conf is set up.

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