strange nslookup dns problem....

[Barry Margolin]

In article <sklcdpneis458 at corp.supernews.com>,
Henry Su <bwc2000 at midwest.net> wrote:
>i just installed bind 8.2.2.pl5 on my linux server and followed along with
>the dns how to on the linux doc project site.  everything seems to be
>working oaky except this....
>
>the domain so far is bogus say zzzbogus.com, when ndc is running and with my
>named.conf and zone files filled in, i can ping host.zzzbogus.com and it
>will go to the proper computer/host on my network.  but when i do a nslookup
>using the local dns server, it can't resolve zzzbogus.com.

It sounds like you put in an A record for host.zzzbogus.com but didn't put
in an A record for zzzbogus.com.  You can only resolve the names you
explicitly enter into the zone file.

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