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Re: [cobalt-users] broken DNS?
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] broken DNS?
- From: "Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue May 1 22:46:02 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> [1:44am] 23 [~]:raq1% nslookup
> *** Can't find server name for address ***.***.18.128:
Non-existent host/domain
> *** Default servers are not available
> [1:45am] 24 [~]:raq1%
>
> ....but it resolves names/etc just fine... and there's an
actual
> functioning name server at the IP it's looking at. I'm
confused..
> haven't seen it do this before, but I never use nslookup
from a
> machine i'm troubleshooting.. ;)
>
nslookup requires reverse lookup, if your reverse doesn't
work,
neither will nslookup. Use 'dig' to check your server, then
fix
the reverse!
Gerald