Re: Secondary DNS

[Jeff Licquia <jeff@luci.org>]

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Charles J Menzes wrote:

> I have a RedHat 5.1 machine running as a secondary DNS server.
> However, an attempt to run nslookup yields :
> 
> *** Can't find server name for address w.x.y.z: Server failed
> *** Default servers are not available
> 
> For some reason, no updates to this server are coming through.
> Additionally, when attempting to run this machine as a primary for a
> domain rather than a secondary, I recieve the same response. The machine's
> name is defined with /etc/hosts, and hostname returns the machine's fqdn.
> Any suggestions?

Are you running the checks on the DNS machine?

Check that your /etc/resolv.conf is set up correctly. There's a man page
for it.  It should look something like this: 

domain <your-domain-here>
nameserver 0.0.0.0

The "0.0.0.0" clues the resolver in that you're running a local name
server.


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