Resolves non-interactive lookups only... ???

[Danny Mayer]

Christopher Hubbell wrote:

> I'm having a strange issue I can't seem to debug.  When I
> issue a 'nslookup' with no arguments, I get a 'no response
> from server' error after the standard timeout.
>
> If I issue a 'nslookup www.sun.com localhost' I get a
> response with times appropriate to a cacheing nameserver.
>
> My resolv.conf looks like this:
> domain x.y
> nameserver 172.18.12.5
>
> In this case, the 172.18.12.5 is the IP of the same box.
> Any ideas why it would work (sort of) on the loopback,
> but not on the public side?
>
> Also, why there is such a delay?  I used a -d2, and saw it
> time out looking up its IP address.  I have a reverse
> zone set up for the 12.18.172.in-addr.arpa zone.

If the zone hasn't been delegated to you then if makes no difference
what
you've set up.  Why are you using such a braindead tool like nslookup
anyway?  Use dig.

    Danny