bind error

Lee Brotherston lee at nerds.org.uk
Wed Aug 14 14:24:36 BST 2002


On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 02:24:53PM +0100, Robin Garbutt wrote:
> 
> has anyone ever had this error in bind?
> 
> portfolio2# nslookup portfolio2.netnorth.co.uk
> *** Can't find server name for address 195.8.182.175: Non-existent
> host/domain
> *** Default servers are not available

It's not actually bind messing up.  It's nslookup trying to perform a
reverse lookup on the IP address it's just resolved for the name.
That particular address has no reverse lookup, hence the error.

Thanks

  Lee

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