[98426] in RedHat Linux List
Re: DNS woes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Lazor)
Mon Nov 9 00:18:08 1998
From: "Ed Lazor" <osmosis@navicom.net>
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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 21:16:35 -0800
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From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: DNS woes
>
>
>Ed Lazor wrote:
>>
>> I just installed RedHat 5.2 and DNS doesn't seem to work. I run the
>> nslookup
>> command and get a message saying:
>>
>> ** Can't find server name for address 138.7.7.100: Server failed
>> ** Default servers are not available
>
>The error is probably in /etc/named.conf, but you did not include
>that file.
oop... ok, here ya go. And thanks for looking at it :)
------------ /etc/named.conf ----------------------------
// generated by named-bootconf.pl
options {
directory "/var/named";
/*
* If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
* to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
* directive below. Previous versions of BIND always asked
* questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
* port by default.
*/
// query-source address * port 53;
};
//
// a caching only nameserver config
//
zone "." {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
type master;
file "named.local";
};
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