Bind problems

[Matt]

Sharino wrote:

> I am running Solaris 9 on a Sun and installed bind 9.2.3 from
> sunfreeware.com. package. I have created
> my named.conf file and put it in the /etc directory and created the
> necessary hosts files in /var/named.
> When i run nslookup to this machine I can resolve the domains I am hosting
> fine. works great. But if I try to resolve non-authorative names it will
> not resolve. I have a similar setup
> and exact same named.conf file on a slackware box and it does the lookups
> fine
> 
> # nslookup
> Default Server:  ns3nr.wp.shawcable.net
> Address:  64.59.176.13
> 
>> server localhost
> Default Server:  localhost
> Address:  127.0.0.1
> 
>> ericmuller.com
> Server:  localhost
> Address:  127.0.0.1
> 
> Name:    ericmuller.com
> Address:  24.77.212.102
> 
>> yahoo.com
> Server:  localhost
> Address:  127.0.0.1
> 
> *** localhost can't find yahoo.com: No response from server
> 
> TIA
> Sharing

Make sure your namesserver(s) and domain are set correctly
in /etc/resolv.conf