[SunHELP] Bind 9.2.3

[Vipul Bhadra]

Hi Eric ,

Lara mentions that its able to lookup FQDN but not by host name alone... so
BIND must be running.

Thanks & Regards ,
Vipul Bhadra

-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-bounces at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Eric LeBlanc
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:24 PM
To: The SunHELP List
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Bind 9.2.3


On Tue, 25 May 2004, Lara Matthews wrote:

>
> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> mailhost
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; res_nsend to server default -- 213.128.229.177: Connection timed out
>
> nslookup does not want to seem to play at all:
>
> # nslookup mailhost
> *** Can't find server name for address 213.128.229.177: No response from
> server
> *** Default servers are not available
>
> # nslookup mailhost.accesscomputing.co.uk
> *** Can't find server name for address 213.128.229.177: No response from
> server
> *** Default servers are not available
>
> Any suggestions why a fully qualified name would work in dig but not an
> unqualified name?
>


Seems that the DNS server is down... have you checked if named is running?
have you checked some errors msg from DNS server in
/var/log/messages or /var/adm/syslog ?


E.
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