Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Thu Feb 1 19:08:35 UTC 2001


On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:43:08AM -0500, Michael J. Pape wrote:
> I'm upgrading from 8.2.2p5 to 9.1. Everything seems to start fine -- aside
> from the "no TTL specified" messages that I'll get to shortly.
> 
> The problem is that after verifying that named version 9.1 is running, I get
> the following when using nslookup:
> 
> *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed
> *** Default servers are not available
> 
> named-checkconf returns:
> the default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no'
> 
> and named-checkzone returns:
> dns_master_load: db.106.149:4: no TTL specified
> dns_zone_load: zone db.106.149/IN: loading master file db.106.149: no ttl
> 
> Would fixing the TTL errors help?
> Any clues???

Two of the most frequently asked questions in one message.

You need a "$TTL	<time specification>" line at the beginning of
each zone file.  The fifth value of the SOA is now the negative TTL.

'nslookup' is not reporting that BIND isn't working.  It is reporting
that it can't find a reverse DNS lookup on your machine for 127.0.0.1,
so it's not going to work.  While you really should have a reverse zone
for every IP address you control, including 127.0.0.1, this is just
plain lazy of 'nslookup'.

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