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Re: [cobalt-users] DNS Problems
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] DNS Problems
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Oct 31 04:49:00 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Super Dave wrote:
> I am getting some strange messages in my log files
>
> sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on host.domain.com
>
> I searched the archives to no avail
>
> also I get this message when I try to nslookup:
>
> [root log]# nslookup
> *** Can't find server name for address xx.xxx.xxx.xx: Non-existent
> host/domain
> *** Can't find server name for address xx.xxx.xxx.xx: Non-existent
> host/domain
> *** Default servers are not available
>
Don't use nslookup.... or fix reverse gethostbyaddr()
Your reverse has to be working for it to work
Use dig (man dig)
Gerald
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