fmbutt@MRBT.SW.STRATUS.COM (Farooq Butt) (06/05/90)
Dear BIND-experts: I am having a weird problem with BIND. I have just set up the new bind 4.8.1 on my machine (mrbt.sw.stratus.com) as a _SECONDARY_ nameserver and am having a hard time getting nslookup to deal with this new nameserver in a logical way. The *only* problem I have left (and this is driving me batty) is the fact that when I start named and enter nslookup (I tried both nslookups; the one with 4.8.1 and the SunOS one) I get told: "*** Can't find server name for address 134.111.2.36: No information" 134.111.2.36 is the address of my machine. Now the plot thickens... if I do a: "> server mrbt" command in nslookup and then lookup "mrbt" (this takes about 8 seconds or so....noticeably s l o w), I get an answer. If AFTER this procedure I go back into nslookup, I don't get the : "*** Can't find server name for address 134.111.2.36: No information" error message any more. All I can gather is that I am somehow not prepping my named correctly or I am missing something that I should have added to my primary nameserver's zone files (I *did* put in new "NS" entries for the reverse-mapping zone-files and the "sw" zone file).... What's up...????? Mystified, Farooq Butt trace follows.... --------------------------------cut here----------------------------------- mrbt# hostname mrbt mrbt# cat /etc/hosts # # If the yellow pages is running, this file is only consulted when booting # # These lines added by the Sun Setup Program from server bigbootay # 134.111.2.36 mrbt mrbt.sw.stratus.com loghost mailhost 127.0.0.1 localhost + mrbt# cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 134.111.2.36 nameserver 134.111.2.18 address 134.111.2.0 address 134.111.0.0 domain sw.stratus.com mrbt# nslookup *** Can't find server name for address 134.111.2.36: No information Default Server: blublaze-gw.sw.stratus.com Address: 134.111.2.147 > mrbt Server: blublaze-gw.sw.stratus.com Address: 134.111.2.147 Name: mrbt.sw.stratus.com Address: 134.111.2.36 > ^D mrbt# nslookup *** Can't find server name for address 134.111.2.36: No information Default Server: blublaze-gw.sw.stratus.com Address: 134.111.2.147 > server mrbt Default Server: mrbt.sw.stratus.com Address: 134.111.2.36 > mrbt Server: mrbt.sw.stratus.com Address: 134.111.2.36 Non-authoritative answer: Name: mrbt.sw.stratus.com Address: 134.111.2.36 > ^D mrbt# nslookup Default Server: mrbt.SW.STRATUS.COM Address: 134.111.2.36 > ^D mrbt# mrbt# ^D -------------------------------cut here---------------------------- as you can see things seem to get hunky-dory after I set my server to "mrbt" _and_ then look "mrbt" up. ?