From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 16 10:28:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from walnut.readington.com (walnut.readington.com [207.207.198.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CCBD1597F for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:28:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chrismar@readington.com) Received: from localhost (chrismar@localhost) by walnut.readington.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA29379; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:26:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chrismar@readington.com) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:26:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris To: Howard Johnson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS Problems In-Reply-To: <000301be882d$63c1be60$2d4b8cd0@hjohnson.tacsys.com> Message-ID: Webpage: http://www.weirdo.net/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try putting nameserver 127.0.0.1 in your /etc/resolv.conf Chris On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Howard Johnson wrote: > > I am having a problem with DNS lookups from my FreeBSD server only. The DNS > works properly with all the clients on the network and does zone transfers > properly. However if I try and do an nslookup from the FreeBSD machine > itself I get an error message that says "Can't find server name for address > 208.140.75.1: Non-existent host/domain" and "Default servers are not > available". > > I have been through the manual and tried everything I know without success. > Below are my named.boot and db.127.0.0 file. I also tried generated a > localhost file using make-localhost and that did not work either. > > I would appreciate any suggestions. > > ======================================================================= > Howard Johnson @fax, Inc. > Network Administrator TAC Systems > Voice (256) 721-1976 1035 Putman Drive > FAX (256) 721-0242 Huntsville, AL 35816 > http://www.atfax.com http://www.tacsys.com > > > NAMED.BOOT FILE: > > directory /etc/namedb > > ; type domain source host/file backup file > > cache . named.root > primary 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA db.127.0.0 > > primary tacsys.com tacsys.hosts > primary 75.140.208.IN-ADDR.ARPA localhost.rev > primary tacsystems.com tacsystems.hosts > secondary atfax.com 208.147.144.2 atfax.hosts > > > DB.127.0.0 FILE: > > @ IN SOA ns1.tacsys.com. root.ns1.tacsys.com. ( > 1999041612 ; Serial > 86400 ; Refresh (1 day) > 300 ; Retry (5 minutes) > 2592000 ; Expire (30 days) > 86400 ) ; Minimum (1 day) > ; > ; name servers > ; > IN NS ns1 > ns1 IN A 208.140.75.1 > > localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 > > 1 IN PTR localhost.tacsys.com. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message