From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 13 21:49:57 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA25237 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:49:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.istudio.no (istudio.no [194.234.126.162]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA25196 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:49:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from kraftwerk.istudio.no (kraftwerk.istudio.no [194.234.126.190]) by www.istudio.no (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA22053 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 06:48:46 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970314064846.0081ae20@istudio.no> X-Sender: lindgren@istudio.no X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 beta 14 (32) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 06:48:46 +0100 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Simon Lindgren Subject: Re: Caching-only DNS? In-Reply-To: <33280A70.41C67EA6@iaces.com> References: <3.0.1.32.19970313100203.0080db80@istudio.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I wrote: >> >> My accessprovider (leased line) runs our DNS requirements on his own >> servers (we do not run >> 'named' or equivalents on our FreeBSD machine). >> >> Recently, nslookup's have started to fail all the time, with "query >> refused" messages. >> This happens only when ran from the shell - using telnet etc to domains work. >> >> I asked them about this, and they said that they've discintinued allowing >> "zone transfers" - and >> that my server probably asks for a zone transfer upon doing a 'nslookup'. >> Another >> possibility was that we ran something called "caching-only DNS'. >> >> How do I disable either? Or is there another solution? Not being able to do >> lookups is a major pain. "Paul T. Root" wrote: > >The question is, how are you doing queries with nslookup? Are you using >ls? >and what is your query type set as. > ------------------------------------------------------------ I cannot say what query I use with nslookup - when I type 'nslookup' at the prompt, it responds with: *** Can't find server name for address 194.198.118.130: Query refused (194.198.118.130 is our primary DNS) So, I cannot get *into* nslookup at all. Is this our problem, or our ISP's ? Thank you Simon Lindgren lindgren@istudio.no