DNS question 2

[dogbert at clue4all.net (Brian Conway)]

> For the real world domain names, such as CNN.COM, UMICH.EDU or
> TIME.COM (and on and on), I do get the address of a host. When I put in
> my domain TRYNIX.COM,  I get
> "localhost can't find trynix.com: Server failed"
>
> Why is this happening? How do I make nslookup find my own bogus domain?

Did you put in a reverse arpa file for the bogus domain and include it in
/etc/named.conf as well, or just the single lookup file?  You will need two
files in use total per domain if doing reverse.

Brian Conway
dogbert at clue4all.net




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