Search Again: Re: Do I have a prob? From: Aaron Lynch Date: Monday, June 4, 2001 Time: 1:07:33 pm On 6/4/01 12:42 PM, The Defendant "Men & Mice Support" <cbuxton@menandmice.com> Confessed: > At 11:48 AM -0700 6/4/01, Global Homes Webmaster wrote: >> On 06/04/01 at 11:25, Aaron Lynch wrote: >> >>> However, from an OSX box, within the lan, & from the same offsite location, >>> I get: >>> % nslookup thevilla.org 63.231.1.2 >>> *** Can't find server name for address 63.231.1.2: Non-existent host/domain >>> *** Default servers are not available >>> >>> Am I doing the nslookup right? >>> If so how come DNS expert can see it but nslookup can't? >> >> Try using nslookup's interactive mode and set the default server to >> 63.231.1.2 >> using a 'server' command: > > Or better yet, don't use nslookup at all. If you want to use a > command-line tool, use dig instead. > > There was a lengthy thread on the Bind-Users list recently about this > very bug in nslookup. If it can't find a PTR record for the address > of the specified server, it refuses to use that server. > > Incidentally, the error message you got indicates that there is no > PTR record, as far as nslookup on your Mac OS X machine is concerned, > for the server address you entered. > ____________________________________________________________________ > Chris Buxton Men & Mice > cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy! > Excellent Chris, thank you. I will try adding PTR's and seeing if that works. I knew there had to be a simple reason for it. -- Aaron Lynch System Administrator NineWire Digital Solutions || http://ninewire.com 43.3% of statistics are meaningless!

Messages In This Thread: Do I have a prob? by Aaron Lynch on Jun 4, 2001 at 11:26:18 am Re: Do I have a prob? by Global Homes Webmaster on Jun 4, 2001 at 11:50:03 am Re: Do I have a prob? by Men & Mice Support on Jun 4, 2001 at 12:45:49 pm Re: Do I have a prob? by Aaron Lynch on Jun 4, 2001 at 12:53:17 pm Re: Do I have a prob? by Aaron Lynch on Jun 4, 2001 at 1:07:33 pm Re: Do I have a prob? by Cayce Will on Jun 4, 2001 at 1:13:12 pm Re: Do I have a prob? by Global Homes Webmaster on Jun 4, 2001 at 1:52:27 pm Re: Do I have a prob? by Aaron Lynch on Jun 4, 2001 at 2:08:12 pm Re: Do I have a prob? by Global Homes Webmaster on Jun 4, 2001 at 2:30:54 pm Re: Do I have a prob? by Men & Mice Support on Jun 5, 2001 at 3:43:33 am