Michael C. Toren on Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:24:02 -0400 (EDT)


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Re: [Plug] BIND / DNS help


> named is running, and I have my IP address as the first nameserver in
> /etc/resolv.conf
> 
> When I do an nslookup, it comes back with
> [otter@binker otter]$ nslookup www.foo.org
> *** Can't find server name for address 129.25.17.136: Non-existent
> host/domain

I believe that nslookup reports this error when it sees inconsistent
forward and reverse DNS for your primary nameserver.  You probably want
to list 127.0.0.1 in your resolv.conf file, anyway, if bind is running
on your local machine.

HTH,

-mct