Re: DNS

scot kreienkamp (skreien@wcnet.org)
Fri, 01 Aug 1997 03:29:31 -0400


In your dns files, your entries should look like this:
blackstar IN A 194.135.207.21

and:
21 IN PTR blackstar.com.

Notice the period at the end of the reverse lookup entry. Do you have it in
your files? It took me 3 weeks to get that problem fixed.

At 12:59 PM 8/2/97 +0600, Fyodor Yarochkin wrote:
>> > 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?
>>
>> Not really. You can get normally sensible responses by putting your own
>> systems in /etc/hosts and setting /etc/hosts.conf to
>>
>> order hosts,bind
>> multi on
>so i have... and.. mm.. you know i just accidently typed the dot after
>com, and got responce at once.. look:
>BlackStar:~# nslookup blackstar.com.
>Server: blackstar.com
>Address: 194.135.207.21
>
>Name: blackstar.com
>Addresses: 194.135.207.21, 127.0.0.1
>
>
>I wonder how can i get my nslookup recognize both blackstar.com and
> blackstar.com. and what is the difference?
>
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