help with DNS Machine...Newbie for life

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Tue Aug 28 19:37:29 UTC 2001


In article <9mgqta$3a9 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Scott.Wiseman <swiseman at remax-cahi.com> wrote:
>C:\>nslookup -?
>*** Invalid option: ?
>*** Can't find server name for address 207.217.21.200: Non-existent domain
>*** Default servers are not available

This means that your nameserver doesn't have a reverse DNS entry for its
own address.

Use dig instead of nslookup, as it doesn't care about this.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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