From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 5 13:44:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96ADB37B719 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 13:44:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: from iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f25Lfxr01025; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 16:41:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3AA4085A.47229660@iowna.com> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 16:42:50 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Beech Rintoul Cc: "Koster, K.J." , "'FreeBSD Questions mailing list'" Subject: Re: Name server config and nslookup References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7C72@l04.research.kpn.com> <01030512182000.21049@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Beech Rintoul wrote: > > On Monday 05 March 2001 08:23, Koster, K.J. wrote: > > % 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 > > % > > 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. You're saying the ISP doesn't have reverse lookup data for those IPs? Those IPs can't be registered with Network Solutions or the root servers, they're RFC-1918 "private" IP numbers. However, there's no reason why the ISPs nameservers can't reverse lookup their own addys. Apparently I was wrong in my initial supposition that it was a config problem on your part. Try this dig request: dig @10.128.1.7 7.1.128.10.in-addr.arpa ptr If you get a response back then the problem is something else, however, I think Beech is right. If you don't get any answer to that query, you need to politely ask your ISP to fix their reverse lookup config for the internal network. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message