Non-internet Master Server

Mark Damrose mdamrose at elgin.cc.il.us
Sun Jan 6 04:20:49 UTC 2002


And since there clearly *is* a PTR record, there must be some reason it is
failing to retreive it.

"Pete Ehlke" <pde at ehlke.net> wrote in message
news:a18grk$bgg at pub3.rc.vix.com...
>
> * Mark Damrose <mdamrose at elgin.cc.il.us> said, on [020105 19:11]:
> > That error message sounds to me like nslookup gets no response from the
DNS
> > server.  Have you verified that the server is actually running?
Listening
> > on localhost?  Not blocked by a firewall?  Are there any error messages
in
> > the logs?
> >
> No, that message sounds like *the* *single* *most* FAQ on this list.
>
> As thirty seconds with your favorite search engine will show you,
> nslookup attempts to perform a reverse lookup on the address of the
> server it's been told to talk to, and abends with that message if there
> is no PTR record present for the name server's address.
>
> -Pete
>




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