Thanks all, for the responses on and off the list. I guess I'll try setting up tinydns. It just seemed strange to me that nslookup needed to do a reverse name lookup on the name server ip address in order to run at all.
-Steve On Thursday, October 18, 2001, at 09:21 AM, Simon Bolduc wrote: > Dnscache isn't actually a name server - all it does it cache names and > then deliver them when asked for. You have to have been to a site in > order for it to cache the name to IP translation - or have run nslookup > (it'll cache it then too). It grabs the names from a dns server and > keeps them there. The problem you are having here is that 192.168.x.x > doesn't have an entry at your ISP's DNS sever - or any public dns > server for that. 192.168.x.x IP addresses are non-routable and don't > need dns names. There are DNS server packages available for LRP - 2 > that come to mind are bind and tinydns. Most people recommend tinydns > if I'm not mistaken - due to security vulnerablilties and performance > issues with bind. > > Simon > > > >> From: Steven Cayford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [Leaf-user] dnscache and nslookup >> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:12:09 -0500 >> >> Hi. I'm enjoying setting up a 486 with Oxygen as a router for my home >> network. I wanted to set up dnscache on the machine since my isp's name >> servers seem kind of slow sometimes and that seems to work pretty >> well. For >> the internal side I just listed my machines (only two of them so far, >> more >> later) in /etc/resolv.conf. So the machines can ping each other by >> number >> or name, I can browse the web from my desktop machine using the router >> as a >> nameserver. However, when I try to run nslookup on my desktop I get: >> >> *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.1: Non-existent >> host/domain >> *** Default servers are not available >> >> 192.168.1.1 is the router, 192.168.1.2 is the desktop, the internet >> side of >> the router is assigned by dhcp. >> >> Am I getting this error because I need an internal name server? Seems >> strange that nslookup would need a name for the name server itself. >> >> Thanks for any suggestions. >> >> -Steve >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leaf-user mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
