Search Again: Re: Do I have a prob? From: Global Homes Webmaster Date: Monday, June 4, 2001 Time: 1:52:27 pm On 06/04/01 at 13:06, Aaron Lynch wrote: > 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: > >> > >> 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. Yes, I generally prefer dig to nslookup anyway -- it shows the actual replies to queries (like DNS Expert does) rather than 'interpreting' them as nslookup does. > > 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. > > Excellent Chris, thank you. Yes, thanks for the info Chris! I was not aware of this. > I will try adding PTR's and seeing if that works. I knew there had to > be a simple reason for it. Aaron, please let us know if that works, just to satisfy those of us who may be curious. 8^) Christopher Bort | cbort@globalhomes.com Webmaster, Global Homes | webmaster@globalhomes.com <http://www.globalhomes.com/> | PGP public key available on request

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