Search Again: Re: Do I have a prob? From: Aaron Lynch Date: Monday, June 4, 2001 Time: 2:08:12 pm On 6/4/01 1:49 PM, The Defendant "Global Homes Webmaster" <webmaster@globalhomes.com> Confessed: > 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. How does one tell dig to use a specific server? (and, tangentially to that, how come apple doesn't include a man page for it??) >>> 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^) Yes!!! Chris, you the man! (again)

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