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Subject: Re: named problems
In-Reply-To: <37334194.C69783B@cio.net> from Anthony Hoelzle at "May 7, 99 12:40:04 pm"
To: pentium@cio.net (Anthony Hoelzle)
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 15:16:40 -0500 (CDT)
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In a previous message, Anthony Hoelzle said:
> I am having problems with named, I can't seem to find any problems in
> my /etc/hosts, host.conf, resolv.conf files. winblows can use the BSD
> box as a dns server, (I can ping hostname from dos etc.) but "nslookup
> hostname.domain.name" (being the server running named) gives me this
> error:
> 
> *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.1: Timed out
> *** Default servers are not available
> 
> all ideas are welcomed
> 


You don't have the reverse lookup put in for 192.168.0.1 which you
undoubtably have defined in your resolv.conf file as your nameserver.


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