Caching only server

[Mokwena Motseto]

Hi

After implementing this named.conf below is the errors I get

Mokwena

systems:/bgs/best1$ nslookup sapprd1
*** Can't find server name for address 165.8.9.51:Non-existent
host/domain
*** Default servers are not available
systems:/bgs/best1$ nslookup sapprd1.sapo.co.za
*** Can't find server name for address 165.8.9.51:Non-existent
host/domain
*** Default servers are not available
systems:/bgs/best1$ nslookup phoenix
*** Can't find server name for address 165.8.9.51:Non-existent
host/domain
*** Default servers are not available
systems:/bgs/best1$ nslookup phoenix.sapo.co.za
*** Can't find server name for address 165.8.9.51:Non-existent
host/domain
*** Default servers are not available
systems:/bgs/best1$ nslookup
*** Can't find server name for address 165.8.9.51:Non-existent
host/domain
*** Default servers are not available

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Barry Margolin
Sent: 29 January 2006 06:56 AM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject: Re: Caching only server

In article <drhfe0$199c$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Mokwena Motseto" <Mokwena.Motseto at postoffice.co.za> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I need to change my DNS server to forward all the requests to other
DNS
> servers
>
> I have changed the named.conf file to the one below, is there anything
> that I might have overlooked

In older versions of BIND it was still necessary to have a hint zone
even when forwarding everything, but I think that was fixed a while ago.

So I think your configuration should work.  What's the problem you're
having?

>
> This is what my named.conf file looks like
>
>
>
> // generated by named-bootconf.pl
>
> options {
> 	directory "/etc/named.data";
> 	forwarders {
> 		10.3.64.51;
> 		10.3.64.52;
> 		10.3.64.73;
> 	};
> };
>
>
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
> 	type master;
> 	file "named.local";
> };
>
> #zone "." {
> #	type hint;
> #	file "named.cache";
> #};

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