Re: [cobalt-users] broken DNS?

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Jonathan Nichols wrote:

> [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 is a little picky, it wants the nameserver it's talking to 
to have a name, you probably don't have reverse defined....
(or it points to a name with no A record)

[to be authorative, a nameserver's name has to match the name delegated to
it, tends to imply it must actually have a name....]

since nslookup is designed to help debugging, it will work anyhow...but it
won't be entirely happy....

gsh