nslookup says 127.0.0.1 is non-existant host/domain?

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Jul 24 23:06:03 UTC 2001


Not much to go on here. Do you have a reverse zone defined in named.conf that contains a
1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa PTR record?

Perhaps it would be easiest to just post your named.conf file (unless it's huge) and the
relevant reverse zonefile.


- Kevin

kkevinSANS_SPAM at frontiernet.net wrote:

> I'm using named as a caching server on my linux box using dial-up modem to
> get on the net.  named works fine when it's queried by lynx, telnet, ping etc
> i.e. it resolves the name to an IP address and the tool works.
>
> Recently tho nslookup hasn't been working.  an nslookup query says:
> *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent host/domain
> *** Default servers are not available
>
> This is what the ethereal packet sniffer log says (listening on lo):
> 1   0.000000    localhost -> localhost    DNS Standard query PTR 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa
> 2   0.000000    localhost -> localhost    DNS Standard query PTR 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa
> 3   0.001168    localhost -> localhost    DNS Standard query response, No such name
> 4   0.001168    localhost -> localhost    DNS Standard query response, No such name
>
> Any help??
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Kevin





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