I'm not so sure of that one. I've often used numeric addresses for
servers in nslookup, and I've never had it give me any indication that it
was trying to resolve its reverse mapping.
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, John Indra wrote:
>
> > Dear all...
> >
> > I have a primary DNS server. Use bind and latest patch from RH 7.0 RPMs.
> > Let's say that it's address is 1.2.3.4
> > Strangely 1.2.3.5, another PC on the same subnet can't use nslookup.
> > Eventhough /etc/resolv.conf in 1.2.3.5 has contain the line:
> > nameserver 1.2.3.4
> >
> > Here's the error messages:
> > $ nslookup
> > *** Can't find server name for address 1.2.3.4: Non-existent host/domain
> >
> > But ping works. Other programs that need DNS works too...
> >
> > I have never met this situation before. Is there any overridden defaults? My
> > /etc/named.conf is so standard that it contains only cache directory and
> > entry for authoritative zone, nothing else.
> >
> > What's causing this and how to cure it? Thanks...
> >
> > /john
> >
> >
> Do you have a reverse DNS zone file with the server's address listed? The
> error message means that when it tried to get a name for IP 1.2.3.4 it
> did not find one.
>
>
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