From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 23 13:57:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from federation.addy.com (federation.addy.com [207.239.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 270C014CFE for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:57:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsdlist@federation.addy.com) Received: from localhost (fbsdlist@localhost) by federation.addy.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA08214; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:55:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 16:55:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Cliff Addy To: Mitch Collinsworth Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS setup problem, "Can't find server name" In-Reply-To: <199909232042.AA019629368@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > >*** 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 Well, I thought of that. The ip of the machine is being reversed, e.g. 71.68.239.207.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR spock.addy.com. These files are identical to the conf files that are working fine on another DNS machine. Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message