On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Tony Koehn wrote: > Thomas, > > My /etc/hosts file does have 127.0.0.1 localhost in it. > My /etc/host.conf has "order hosts,bind" in it. > > Tony <<snip>> > > Tony Koehn wrote: > > :After getting debian installed I tried to do a nslookup and I get this > > :message: > > : > > :*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent > host.domain > > :*** Default servers are not available. > > : > > :What did I do wrong? > > > > See wether there's a line "127.0.0.1 localhost" in /etc/hosts. > > See wether /etc/host.conf has "order hosts,bind" or "order bind,hosts" > > in it. The first one will query /etc/hosts before going to the nameserver > > configured in /etc/resolv.conf, while the other will do it in the reverse > > order.
Check that you are primary-ing the localhost in /var/named/named.local and named.boot. see the DNS HOWTO. John Foster -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
