Your nameserver will be able to lookup blackstar.com with your connection
down, as long as when you start named your connection is up so that it can
query the root name servers.
Do you have a zone file for 127.0.0.1?
Do you have a zone file for 207.135.194.in-addr.arpa?
Do you have a zone file for blackstar.com?
Do you have a named.cache file with the root name servers in it?
Do you have a named.boot file with primary lines for the first 3 above?
Get those setup and you shouldn't have any problem as it appears your
/etc/resolv.conf is setup with the IP of your box listed as the first
nameserver entry. Try adding:
nameserver 127.0.0.1 as the first nameserver line to make sure you have
your loopback zone setup correctly.
Curtis
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Fyodor Yarochkin wrote:
> 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?
>