Errors Bind 8.1

[Kevin Darcy]

BAETMAEN wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've set up 2 Nameservers (ns1 and ns2) for our Domain oilgear.de. I bought
> the "bible for bind" from O#Reilly and started working it out. Now
> everything is working great (menas: I can ping the hosts which I have
> already added to the config without problems. When I type ping de-fra-1, the
> returning message is pinging de-fra-1.oilgear.de (ip-adress) with xxkb of
> data. This looks for me, as if it would work).
> My problem is the message when I try to use nslookup:
> *** Can't find Server name for adress 10.7.1.201 : Non existent host/domain
> *** Default servers are not availabal.

This just means that no reverse record exists for 10.7.1.201. nslookup is
stupid in that it aborts if it can't reverse-resolve the address of the
nameserver it is trying to use. Add the reverse record, or use a real lookup
tool like "dig".


- Kevin