Re: [TCLUG:4147] DNS

[Jim Raney <seumas@citilink.com>]

Make sure you have a named.local referencing your hostname, and make sure
your /etc/named.conf references your "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" file.

And, by the way, I recommend "DNS and BIND' from O'Reilly. Snag it from a
library and you won't regret it :)

Jim Raney
Sysadmin, Citilink Internet, Inc.

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

> yippee! I got a new one this time after running nslookup:
> *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed
> 
> seen this one before?
> 
> serge
> 
> Jim Raney wrote:
> 
> > 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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