Re: Help! My computer thinks it is a name server
I'll bet it has something to do with your reverse-lookup setup.
nslookup -d2 yahoo.com
to get some exhaustive debug information.
Marc
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>>> Matthew Wade Roberts <mwr4722@unix.tamu.edu> 05/21 4:00 PM >>>
The IP is: 165.91.194.118
It doesn't make any sense to me, either...
> From switt@net5.rsc.raytheon.com Fri May 21 15:34:57 1999
> From: sawitt <switt@electra.RSC.RAYTHEON.COM>
> To: Matthew Wade Roberts <mwr4722@unix.tamu.edu>
> Subject: Re: Help! My computer thinks it is a name server
>
> On Fri, 21 May 1999, Matthew Wade Roberts wrote:
>
> > For some reason, my Debian box (lehi.tamu.edu) thinks it is the name
> > server. For instance:
> >
> > % nslookup yahoo.com
> > Server: lehi
> > Address: 0.0.0.0
> >
> > *** lehi can't find yahoo.com: No response from server
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is my resolv.conf:
> > -----------------------
> > domain tamu.edu
> > nameserver 128.194.178.1
> > nameserver 128.194.98.5
> > nameserver 165.91.32.63
> >
> > And my host.conf:
> > -----------------
> > order hosts,bind
> > multi on
> >
> >
>
> What is the IP address(s) of lehi.tamu.edu? Is it one of the nameserver
> entries in /etc/resolv.conf? Unless you're running a local nameserver then
> it shouldn't be. Assuming that you're not running a nameserver on lehi,
> the only file I know of to specify the nameservers is /etc/resolv.conf,
> which should contain all of your networks nameservers.
>
>
!v
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