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From: Tim Erlin <tim@firstinitiallastname.com>
To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz>
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Subject: Re: "Finding Myself"  [DNS Issue
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Are you testing this from the host on which named is running? If so, you
might check out what you have in /etc/resolv.conf. It should be 127.0.0.1,
I believe.

--Tim

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote:

> Forgive my newbieness, I seem to have a DNS issue.
>
> myprompt$host myserver.com
>
> host myserver.com has address my.ip.add.ress
> myserver.com mail is handled (PRI=10) by mail.myserver.com
>
> *BUT*
>
> myprompt$ nslookup - myserver.com
>
> Server:  myserver.com
> Address:  my.ip.add.ress
>
> >myserver.com
>
> *** myserver.com can't find myserver.com: Non-existent host/domain ***
>
> I need this server to be authoritative...
>
> Points to relevant documentation (I've read man named.conf, man named,
> man nslookup---but I'll do it again if you're sure...) or the absolute
> perfect
> google search string would be appreciated, as would a darn fine right
> answer from anyone with the information.  TIA, Kevin K
>
> PS cc me, please --- I signed up for questions a while ago, but
> majordomo doesn't like my DNS   :-)
>
> Version info:
>
> myprompt$ /usr/sbin/named -v
> named 8.2.4-REL Mon Jan 28 12:52:14 GMT 2002
>         murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named
>
> myprompt$ uname -a
> FreeBSD hostname.myserver.com 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 28
> 14:31:56 GMT 2002
> murray@builder.freebsdmall.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
>
>
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