From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 23 13:43:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu (broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu [128.84.247.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5A9114D2B for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:43:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU) Received: from graphics.cornell.edu (localhost.graphics.cornell.edu) by broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu with ESMTP (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA019629368; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:42:48 -0400 Message-Id: <199909232042.AA019629368@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Cliff Addy Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS setup problem, "Can't find server name" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:05:55 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:42:47 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I'm setting up a new DNS server for the first time in 4 years and running >into a problem. It's a 3.2 system, using the named.conf and associated >files from a older server. It starts up cleanly, no messages in the log >files. But when I try an nslookup, it waits a while and gives me this >message: > >*** Can't find server name for address 207.239.68.71: Timed out >*** Default servers are not available You need an in-addr.arpa entry for the server. This is a bizarre error mode of nslookup that I really don't understand the need for. If nslookup is unable to resolve the IP address of the server it is querying back to a name, rather than just forge on using numbers it will give up and refuse to work. See p. 67 of the cricket book (3rd ed.) for details. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message