I'll bet it has something to do with your reverse-lookup setup. nslookup -d2 yahoo.com
to get some exhaustive debug information. Marc ---------- Marc Mongeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN 55431-2200 (612)888-0123, x417 | FAX: (612)888-3344 ---------- "It's such a fine line between clever and stupid." -- David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel of "Spinal Tap" >>> Matthew Wade Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 05/21 4:00 PM >>> The IP is: 165.91.194.118 It doesn't make any sense to me, either... > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri May 21 15:34:57 1999 > From: sawitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Matthew Wade Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Help! My computer thinks it is a name server > > On Fri, 21 May 1999, Matthew Wade Roberts wrote: > > > For some reason, my Debian box (lehi.tamu.edu) thinks it is the name > > server. For instance: > > > > % nslookup yahoo.com > > Server: lehi > > Address: 0.0.0.0 > > > > *** lehi can't find yahoo.com: No response from server > > > > > > > > Here is my resolv.conf: > > ----------------------- > > domain tamu.edu > > nameserver 128.194.178.1 > > nameserver 128.194.98.5 > > nameserver 165.91.32.63 > > > > And my host.conf: > > ----------------- > > order hosts,bind > > multi on > > > > > > What is the IP address(s) of lehi.tamu.edu? Is it one of the nameserver > entries in /etc/resolv.conf? Unless you're running a local nameserver then > it shouldn't be. Assuming that you're not running a nameserver on lehi, > the only file I know of to specify the nameservers is /etc/resolv.conf, > which should contain all of your networks nameservers. > > !v -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
