Re: NSLOOKUP don't work

[John F <johnf@mars.nettrek.net.au>]

On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Tony Koehn wrote:

> Thomas,
> 
> My /etc/hosts file does have 127.0.0.1 localhost in it.
> My /etc/host.conf has "order hosts,bind" in it.
> 
> Tony
<<snip>> 
> > Tony Koehn wrote:
> > :After getting debian installed I tried to do a nslookup and I get this
> > :message:
> > :
> > :*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent
> host.domain
> > :*** Default servers are not available.
> > :
> > :What did I do wrong?
> > 
> > See wether there's a line "127.0.0.1 localhost" in /etc/hosts.
> > See wether /etc/host.conf has "order hosts,bind" or "order bind,hosts"
> > in it. The first one will query /etc/hosts before going to the nameserver
> > configured in /etc/resolv.conf, while the other will do it in the reverse
> > order.

Check that you are primary-ing the localhost in /var/named/named.local
and named.boot.

see the DNS HOWTO.

John Foster


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