On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, ronnie gauthier wrote: > I'm trying to help a friend out on his web hoster. > > A domain is pointed from a registar to a hosting agents DNS servers, the DNS > servers are correct, I checked. > The host claims to have the proper entries in their DNS server. > > If I set the nslookup server to the hosts main DNS server then query the domain > name in question, I should get returned the IP from the hosters DNS, no matter > if the registar DNS has fully propagated or not. In other words, if the hoster > has DNS records correct I should never receive the following from nslookup > > > www.surprisewinner.com > Server: ns1.skylap.com > Address: 207.44.216.141#53 > > ** server can't find www.surprisewinner.com: SERVFAIL
No, that error means that ns1.skylap.com isn't serving DNS information. Either its not a DNS server, or its broken. www.surprisewinner.com also doesn't appear to be a valid domain, however. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
