server failed

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 09:37:14PM +0000, Nick wrote:
> DNS Moron looking for help
> RedHat Linux 6.2
> 
> [root at cobra-pc nickr]# nslookup
> *** Can't find server name for address 195.188.19.135: Server failed
> *** Default servers are not available

This is an 'nslookup' peculiarity.  You don't have your reverse DNS
properly set up.  It does not affect regular DNS lookups.

But you should get your reverse DNS fixed.

> I can also ping cobra-pc.net but not www.cobra-pc.net CNAME seems to be
> set-up ok
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---
> <cobra-pc.net>
> 
> @               IN      SOA     cobra-pc.net.   hostmaster.cobra-pc.net. (
>                         2000071804 ; serial
>                         3600 ; refresh
>                         900 ; retry
>                         1209600 ; expire
>                         43200 ; default_ttl
>                         )
> @               IN      MX      5       cobra-pc.net.
> @               IN      NS      cobra-pc.net.
> @               IN      A       195.188.19.135
> hucksley                IN      CNAME   www.cobra-pc.net.

But you don't have "www" defined!  Just "cobra-pc.net".

Depending on what you want, you could have [e.g.]

www		IN	A	195.188.19.136

	or

www		IN	CNAME	cobra-pc.net.

[note the appended "."].

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