From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 13:28:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (cable-115-7-237-24.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C083237B740 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:28:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from akbeech@anchoragerescue.org) Received: from galaxy.anchoragerescue.org (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CB9BE187; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:28:32 -0900 (AKST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul To: K.J.Koster@kpn.com Subject: Re: Name server config and nslookup Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:28:32 -0900 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7C72@l04.research.kpn.com> In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7C72@l04.research.kpn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01030512283201.21217@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday 05 March 2001 08:23, Koster, K.J. wrote: > Dear All, > > My ISP gives me name server IPs through DHCP. This works just fine and I > can use dig(1) to query the name server I get the expected results. > > However, when I start nslookup, the following happens: > > % nslookup > *** Can't find server name for address 10.128.1.7: Non-existent host/domain > *** Can't find server name for address 10.128.1.39: Non-existent > host/domain *** Default servers are not available > % > > I think that my ISP has made a configuration error in their reverse lookup, > but they claim that I made a mistake. > > What mistake did I make? If none, what mistake did they make? > > Kees Jan > Those IP's do not resolve and are not registered with network solutions or the root servers.  You need to have your isp take care of this. The other possibility is to use the nameservers that are registered to your isp. Those should be ok for reverse lookups. -Beech ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Network Manager - akbeech@anchoragerescue.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Anchorage Gospel Rescue Mission \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | P.O. Box 230510 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99523-0510 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message