help with DNS Machine...Newbie for life

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Tue Aug 28 22:41:33 UTC 2001


At 03:37 PM 8/28/01, Barry Margolin wrote:
>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.

He indicated that he was using W2K DNS and not BIND which means he's using
tools available on Windows.  MS does not ship dig.  It does ship nslookup.  He
should really be asking in the microsoft news groups.

         Danny



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