SUMMARY: DNS

From: Larry Chin (larry@cch.com)
Date: Mon Jan 04 1993 - 10:57:57 CST


------------------------- Original Posting ------------------------------------
Hello

I am attempting to set up DNS and after setting stuff up according to the FM
I try to do an nslookup ( after starting named ). I type nslookup and the
error message " Can't find initialize address for server: Non-existent domain".
pops up followed by "Default server: localhost" and Address: 127.0.0.1".

does anyone have any idea what I have done wrong here ? Any help would be
appreciated.

System: Sparc 2
        SunOS 4.1.2

Using Bind and Dns stuff that came with SunOs.
Domainname command yields cch.com ( as it should ).

If I have left out any essential info please let me know.

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As usual the response was quick and accurate.
Many of you spotted the problem immediately and correctly pointed to the
/etc/resolv.conf file as the problem. Turned out to be a line that was
commented by accident ( red face ). I guess the result of too many hours
sitting in front of a console.

Anyway, thank you all for the responses, and the next time I ** will ** check
the basic first.

thanks to:

blymn@awadi.com.AU (Brett Lymn)
grs@claircom.com (Gregg Siegfried)
David Fetrow <fetrow@biostat.washington.edu>
ems@ccrl.nj.nec.com (Ed Strong)
don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
ohnielse@ltf.dth.dk (Ole Holm Nielsen)
lhume@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au (Leigh Hume)
cmm@hoccson.ho.att.com (45266B-C.MURPHY(HOM617)1000)
"Marc P. Rinfret" <Marc.Rinfret@eng.canadair.ca>
fabrice@yosemite.atmos.ucla.edu (fabrice cuq)
pln@egret1.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan)
Geert Jan de Groot <geertj@ica.philips.nl>

Larry Chin {larry@cch.com} CCH Canadian Ltd.
System Administrator 6 Garamond Court
Research and Development Don Mills, Ontario.
(416) 441-4001 ext. 349 M3C 1Z5



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