quick question regarding DNS

[sfahey]

Hi group, I have a quick question regarding DNS. My FQDN is veracruz.paunchy.net I can sit a my windows box type any one of my domains and sure enough the site comes-up ! but, nslookup is failing, which is a bit irritating when certain things I’m doing rely on nslookup

I have enclosed my main paunchy.net zone file and the error message which is continually appearing



@ IN SOA ns.paunchy.net. hostmaster.paunchy.net. (
2002101801 ; Serial
7200 ; Refresh - 2 hours
3600 ; Retry - 1 hour
604800 ; Expire - 12 hours
3600 ) ; Minimum - 1 hour

NS ns

IN NS ns.paunchy.net.

IN A 192.168.0.1

IN MX 10 mail.paunchy.net.


Error log:


Nov 15 15:35:20 veracruz named[430]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on ns.paunchy.net?

Hope somebody can help

Thanks

shaun

[sfahey]

veracruz:~ # nslookup paunchy.net
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.1: Non-existent host/domain
*** Default servers are not available

[Supa' Penguin]

Hey Bud,
You havn't created a reverse zone yet?

[thread_killer]

nslookup looks for public IP's. You've got a private one there.

[sfahey]

hey Supa,

yes, i have done all the reverse zones

root hints, local zone, bla bla

like i say, DNS is working !

it just nslookup is not working :(

with regard to the posting from 'thread_killer'

public or private, makes no difference,

i have had it working b4, i lost all my zones when i done a rebuild, i cant remember what the main zone was

regarding my error

(NXDOMAIN) = a "Name Error"

Name errors (NXDOMAIN) are indicated by the presence of "Name Error" in the RCODE field. In this case the domain referred to by the QNAME does not exist

not sure about this ? its correct, but, as 2 what i add to paunchy.zone, god knows :)

[thread_killer]

alright then, are you sure that the box you are sitting at using nslookup is looking to your private dns and not a public ns? Does your DNS box think that it's primary and authoritative for the
domain?

--edit: Ok, I see the SOA in there. ooops :o

[sfahey]

Hi thread_killer

Primary and authoritative? I’m sure it’s authoritative, but not quite sure! Could you enlighten me !

fairly new 2 this dns stuff, have got a shed load of books, at first glance I’ve done it right, I guess it must be mostly right because I can sit at my windows box and browse all 12 IP based virtual domains. But there name i.e. http://paunchy.net and http://sfahey.com ect..ect…

on that note ! when I do an nslookup from windows with the ‘cyber kit’ app I get a result
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Saturday, November 16, 2002 02:13:48PM
name based v-host sfahey.com
Name Server LookUp for sfahey.com
Local Hostname: veracruz.paunchy.net
Local IP Address: 192.168.0.11
Local IP Address: 213.122.254.96 # I’m on-line right now !!
Hostname: sfahey.com
IP Address: 192.168.0.1

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Saturday, November 16, 2002 02:15:47PM
IP based v-host
Name Server LookUp for iws.net
Local Hostname: veracruz.paunchy.net
Local IP Address: 192.168.0.11 # my windows box
Local IP Address: 213.122.254.96 # I’m on-line right now !!
Hostname: iws.net
IP Address: 192.168.0.42

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nslookup from linux

veracruz:~ # nslookup on any domain I have
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.1: Non-existent host/domain
*** Default servers are not available


hum ! I here you say !


shaun

[thread_killer]

Ok, a WHOIS on paunchy.net gave me this:

Domain Name: PAUNCHY.NET
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: KITSUNE.SWCP.COM
Name Server: DNS1.OSOGRANDE.COM
Updated Date: 05-nov-2001


Are those name servers listed there correct?

[sfahey]

hi m8

i'am using a set-up from a book, it just happens to be the same.

mine is just a local set-up in my bedroom..!

se ya