Bind Designated as Root Server?....

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Dec 28 14:53:11 UTC 2001


In article <a0hsgc$q0d at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Raheel Hussain  <mr_hussain_75020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>I got Bind 8.2.5 running properly, but having some problems
>
>when in the Dos Prompt , I Write the command 
>
>nslookup yahoo.com 
>
>I get the following response:
>
>Server:  panda
>Address:  192.168.0.4
>
>Name:    yahoo.com
>Served by:
>- M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>          202.12.27.33

This looks like you've disabled recursion on your server.

>-------------------------------------
>
>while when i write the command
>
>nslookup raheel123.com 
>
>i get the right response which is as follows:
>
>Server:  panda
>Address:  192.168.0.4
>
>Name:    raheel123.com
>Address:  192.168.0.4

That domain doesn't even exist, as far as I can tell.  You must have your
server configured as an authoritative server for the domain.

>so i suspect that Bind might be designated as Root Server, or kind of
>something, because when i use 
>
>ping yahoo.com
>
>i get the right response from it. telling the ip address of yahoo.

That's very strange.  Maybe you have it in your HOSTS.TXT file?  Ping will
look in both the file and DNS, but nslookup just queries DNS.

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