host name configured wrong

Michael Kjorling michael at kjorling.com
Tue Sep 4 18:07:25 UTC 2001


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Well, what's wrong with my car?

That's about the same kind of question. I would guess that in this
case the answer to your question is fairly simple though: lack of
reverse DNS for whatever IP you obscured as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. Of
course, there is no way to confirm that.

Set up some reverse DNS, make sure you get it delegated properly and
try again.


Michael Kjörling


On Sep 4 2001 12:12 -0400, Eoin Miller wrote:

> when i do an nslookup from a windows box and im using my linux box running
> BIND 9.1.1 nslookup works, but this is what the screen says
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> C:\>nslookup www.google.com
> *** Can't find server name for address xxx.xxx.xxx..xxx: Non-existent domain
> *** Default servers are not available
> Server:  UnKnown
> Address:  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:    www.google.com
> Address:  216.239.37.100
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----
>
> anybody know what i am missing?
> thanks
>
> Eoin Miller

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