[SunHELP] DNS-Problem : BIND 9.2.2 and Solaris-nslookup

[Phil Stracchino]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 04:30:31PM +0200, Michael Karl wrote:
> I had setup an BIND-9.2.2-DNS-Server on a Solaris8-Sparc.
> 
> DNS-Service is working fine for all MacOS8.x-9.x-, MacOS/X- and
> Windows-2000/XP-Clients.
> 
> But all Solaris2.6/7/8-Clients get the message from nslookup
> 
> *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.8.220: Non-existent
> host/domain
> *** Default servers are not available
> 
> Ping on Solaris-Clients is working !
> 
> I've googled for many hours ... found many hints ... but no solution,
> which I understand. It seems to be a problem of the internal Solaris8
> nslookup. This nslookup needs an additional revers-lookup ... ???
> 
> Does anybody know the solution ?

Sorry, it's a mystery to me, but I'd be interested to hear your eventual
findings.


> Please, don't tell me, that I have to install BIND-Utilities on every
> Solaris-Clients ... this will make me crazy.

Well, nslookup *is* deprecated .....


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