What's wrong if ....

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Tue Jan 16 16:38:02 UTC 2001


In article <941t2c$b9t at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Mefistofeles  <mefistofeles at deathsdoor.com> wrote:
>
>... I get
>
>Can't find MYDOMAIN.SE: Non-existent domain
>
>when doing a nslookup for MYDOMAIN.SE
>
>I get a valid response when doing a nslookup for
>HOST.MYDOMAIN.SE
>
>I am not getting any errors when booting named.

Sounds like you don't have an A record for MYDOMAIN.SE.  Since nslookup is
an utter piece of crap, it reports the same "non-existent domain" error
message if a name doesn't exist or if the name exists but doesn't have a
record of the type you requested.

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