From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 28 23:02:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA02198 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 23:02:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA02168 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 1998 23:02:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA06490; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:31:52 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id RAA04798; Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:31:51 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980301173151.65290@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 17:31:51 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Javier Henderson Cc: "Tim O'Neil" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Frank McConnell Subject: Re: need more net hints References: <199803010234.SAA10825@rah.star-gate.com> <3.0.3.32.19980228194430.00b2ece0@pop.flash.net> <19980301144341.01849@freebie.lemis.com> <199803010428.UAA17967@kjsl.com> <19980301163650.50284@freebie.lemis.com> <199803010632.WAA18455@kjsl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199803010632.WAA18455@kjsl.com>; from Javier Henderson on Sat, Feb 28, 1998 at 10:32:02PM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 28 February 1998 at 22:32:02 -0800, Javier Henderson wrote: > Greg Lehey writes: >> On Sat, 28 February 1998 at 20:28:37 -0800, Javier Henderson wrote: >>> Greg Lehey writes: >>>> On Sat, 28 February 1998 at 19:44:30 -0800, Tim O'Neil wrote: >>>>> I was wondering what exactly was meant when nslookup >>>>> reports "*** Can't find server for address 10.0.0.1: No >>>>> response from server. >>>> >>>> This one means that there is no reverse lookup for network 10. >>> >>> I respectfully disagree, and submit that resolv.conf is >>> pointing the resolver to 10.0.0.1, and named is not running on >>> that system (presumably the local host). >> >> In that case, you'd get the following message: >> >> *** Request to 10.0.0.1 timed-out > > Well: > > # killall named > # nslookup > *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: No response from server > *** Default servers are not available > # /usr/sbin/named > # nslookup > Default Server: LOCALHOST > Address: 127.0.0.1 So it does. The message is different depending on whether you use /etc/resolv.conf or specify the address directly. Of course, that wasn't the message that Tim quoted :-) Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message