From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 23 14:16:12 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 96A1514E97 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 14:16:06 -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 AA020831267; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:14:27 -0400 Message-Id: <199909232114.AA020831267@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 16:55:51 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 17:14:26 -0400 From: Mitch Collinsworth 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. I don't doubt your zone files are the same, but I do suspect this one isn't getting read. Possibly a typo in your named.conf. The cause of nslookup giving the error message above is lack of in-addr.arpa resolution for the server's IP address. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message