I got this exact error even though my config files were OK. Turns out the
named binary in Slackware 3.4 is broken - try recomiling or getting the
binary from elsewhere if what Brian suggests does not work...
Regards,
Adam Naylor
> ----------
> From: brian beuning
> Sent: 12 September 1998 02:03
> To: Paul Thomas
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: I give up! I'll try named
>
> I think this means you are missing a "reverse mapping" for DNS 127.0.0.0
> addresses.
> In your named.conf, you need a line like
>
> primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa pz/127.0.0
>
> and the file pz/127.0.0 might look like:
>
> @ IN SOA ns.domain.com. hostmaster.domain.com. (
> 1 ; Serial
> 28800 ; Refresh
> 7200 ; Retry
> 604800 ; Expire
> 86400) ; Minimum TTL
> NS ns.domain.com.
> 1 PTR localhost.
>
> Brian Beuning
>
>
> Paul Thomas wrote:
>
> > Due to the amount of trouble I have had trying to stop sendmail
> > performing DNS requests - I decided to run a caching name server.
> >
> > Now, when trying to run nslookup, as per the HOW-TO I get this:
> >
> > [root@kastor pz]# nslookup
> > *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent
> > host/domain
> > *** Default servers are not available
> >
> > Suggestions?
> >
> > I have the DNS & Bind book - but that's for v4, is there any
> > documentation for v8?
> >
> > tia
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