Hi

I have set up a BIND 9 caching only dns server on my linux box.

However, when i do an 'nslookup' on a windows XP machine on the LAN, i get the following:

*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.1: Non-existent domain
*** Default servers are not available
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.google.com
Address: 216.239.39.99

It goes through the second time, and is nice and fast.

Does anyone know why it fails the first time? Would it be to do with having to set up another zone for 192.168.0.1 or something?

Cheers for any help

Duncan

Sounds to me like your box is trying to change 192.168.0.1 back into a name, which is failing. Updating you hosts file should solve this one for you. Assuming they haven't moved it in XP take a look in system32\drivers\etc under your Windows directory.

cheers

Jamie...

I added an entry for the linux box in the windows hosts file,

192.168.0.1 plasma.lan plasma

yet, i still get the same on nslookups...

i think it is something to do with the BIND config on the linux box? Can you make BIND serve aliases from /etc/hosts? ...

You did rename the file to just "hosts" not "hosts.sam" yeah?

You can't make bind use /etc/hosts. You'll need to reconfigure it to be a full-blown name server, not just a caching server, and give it the details of your IP addresses in proper zone files. Have a look at the HOWTO on http://www.tldp.org

cheers

Jamie...