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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:20:03 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Jeff Hartman <jeff@wilkshire.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: nslookup
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On Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 01:28:03PM -0500, Jeff Hartman wrote:
> i have a freebsd test machine called techcenter.wilkshire.com
> everything is functioning: ie, dns, email, popper, ftp....etc....
> except nslookup will not work, it gives me the following error.
>
> ***Can't find server name for address 207.206.44.5: Non-existent
> host/domain
> *** Default servers not available
>
> i thought the resolv.conf may be wrong.
>
> /etc/resolv.conf
>
> localhost     127.0.0.1
> domain        wilkshire.com
> nameserver    207.206.44.5
>
>
> any ideas?

It's trying to tell you that it can't resolve the address
207.206.44.5.  I can't either.  This almost certainly means that your
reverse lookup isn't working.  It's nothing to do with resolv.conf.

Greg