Denis Voitenko wrote:

> I have some minor problem with DNS. I am attempting to configure a caching
> DNS. I have the named working properly (I am almost sure) and my
> /etc/resolv.conf looks like this:
> 
> search localhost
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> 
> but whenever I do nslookup localhost it gives me
> 
> *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Non-existent host/domain
> *** Default servers are not available
> 
> what would be the problem here?

nslookup insists upon the DNS server having a hostname. Do you have an
entry for 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts? E.g.

        127.0.0.1       localhost

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