> Hello people
> I wonder, to get DNS working, is it that nessesary to to have on-line
> connection all the time? look, when my internet connection down, and i
> want to nslookup my host.. i get such error:
> BlackStar:~$ nslookup blackstar.com
> Server: blackstar.com
> Address: 194.135.207.21
>
> *** blackstar.com can't find blackstar.com: No response from server
> BlackStar:~$
> maybe i just missconfigured something?
Well, if you haven't set up a local server on your machine either caching
or otherwise, then yes you will get these errors with nslookup, since
nslookup uses DNS.
If you want to solve this run a small caching nameserver on your machine.
sachin
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