On 5 Jan 1999, Matt Downer writes:
> When ever I type nslookup mogwaicom.net ( my registered domain name)
> I get the folowing error message.
> Server: localhost
> Address: 127.0.0.1
>
> *** localhost can't find mogwaicom.net: Server failed
More info is needed to diagnose this.
(a) What is in your /etc/resolv.conf file?
(b) Can you ping ns1.mogwaicom.net OK? Can you ping the server(s)
listed in your /etc/resolv.conf file?
(c) Are you sure named is running on your local machine?
(d) Does nslookup xc.org (for example) work OK for you? Or is lookup
failing for all domains?
I also did a quick check and it seems to me that ns1.mogwaicom.net is
probably misconfigured.
The InterNIC thinks ns1.mogwaicom.net is the primary DNS server for
mogwaicom.net (sounds reasonable!), but that machine does not believe
itself to be authoritative for that domain...
17:06:19 jonathan@abraham:~$nslookup
Default Server: localhost.xc.org
Address: 127.0.0.1
> server ns1.mogwaicom.net.
Default Server: ns1.mogwaicom.net
Address: 216.101.174.3
> set type=any
> mogwaicom.net.
Server: ns1.mogwaicom.net
Address: 216.101.174.3
Non-authoritative answer:
mogwaicom.net nameserver = ns1.mogwaicom.net
mogwaicom.net nameserver = NS2.mogwaicom.net
Authoritative answers can be found from:
mogwaicom.net nameserver = ns1.mogwaicom.net
mogwaicom.net nameserver = NS2.mogwaicom.net
ns1.mogwaicom.net internet address = 216.101.174.3
NS2.mogwaicom.net internet address = 216.101.174.4
> ^D
17:07:14 jonathan@abraham:~$
Are you running ns1.mogwaicom.net, or does your ISP handle that, or
what?
Incidentally, despite this, lookups of the domain *are* working OK
from here -- but you should still fix it. I'm not sure (yet) how
related it is to what you are seeing with the 'server failed' error.
One other thing to try: restart the named on your local machine
(killall -HUP named), and then look in /var/log/messages and see if
any errors or warnings are generated by named when it starts up. If
you see some, either fix things, or post the messages here.
Jonathan
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