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On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Bill Gillespie wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have read the HOWTO & (I thought) folllowed the instructions quite well,
> however it's not working, so something is wrong. I am running Redhat
> 5.0.
>
> To test the server I enter "nslookup" , the following is the error message i
> get : "*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Server failed
> Default Server: poblano.bconnected.net
> Address: 209.53.0.1
>
> This is an excerpt from my /var/log/messages file:
> Aug 8 09:29:08 linuxbox named[4042]: starting. named 8.1.1 Sat Apr 4 00:44:35 EST 1998 ^Iroot@sideshow.redhat.com:/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/bind-8.1.1/src/bin/named
> Aug 8 09:29:08 linuxbox named[4042]: /etc/named.conf:1: syntax error near ;
> Aug 8 09:29:08 linuxbox named[4042]: listening [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
> Aug 8 09:29:08 linuxbox named[4042]: listening [209.53.23.91].53 (eth0)
> Aug 8 09:29:08 linuxbox named[4042]: listening [192.168.1.1].53 (eth0:0)
> Aug 8 09:29:08 linuxbox named[4042]: Forwarding source address is [127.0.0.1].1274
> Aug 8 09:29:08 linuxbox named[4043]: Ready to answer queries.
> Aug 8 09:33:50 linuxbox named[4043]: No root nameservers for class IN
>
> >From this I gather that named is running but has a problem with the
> configuration.
>
> This is my /etc/named.conf file:
> ;
> ; a caching only nameserver config
> ;
> directory /var/named
> cache . named.ca
> primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa named.local
>
> And this is my /var/named/named.local file:
> @ IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
> 1997022700 ; Serial
> 28800 ; Refresh
> 14400 ; Retry
> 3600000 ; Expire
> 86400 ) ; Minimum
> IN NS localhost.
> 1 IN PTR localhost.
>
>
> >From this info, can anyone advise me where I have gone wrong?
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
>
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>
> Bill Gillespie <bill@gillespie.bc.ca>
> New Westminster, BC Canada
>
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