Re: [TCLUG:4147] DNS

[Jim Raney <seumas@citilink.com>]

You need to set up a reverse lookup for localhost.  Here's mine:

0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.	IN SOA connor.mad-seumas.net. root@mad-seumas.net.
(
					1998112402 ; serial
					28800	   : refresh
					14400	   ; retry
					3600000	   ; expire
					86400 )    ; minimum

0.0.127.in.addr.arpa.	IN NS	localhost.

Make sure that this file is added to /etc/named.boot as follows:

primary 	0.0.127.in-addr.arpa	pz/named.rev-127.0.0

based on your path and give named a HUP. 

The localhost reverse is required for the nameserver; usually reverses
have to be done by the owner of the class C.

Jim Raney
Sysadmin, Citilink Internet

On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Serge M. Egelman wrote:

> hi,
>     I've decided to set up my own caching dns on my routing box.  I've read through
> the howto many times and am still stuck at this one problem:  when I run nslookup,
> I get this error:
> 
> Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent host/domain
> 
> anyone know what's wrong?
> 
> serge
> 
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