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From: umar@cybercom.net (Rob Landry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: DNS weirdness
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:22:17 -0500
Organization: Cyber Access Internet Services (617) 396-0491
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Message-ID: <umar-2601961022170001@dial2-19.cybercom.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: dial2-19.cybercom.net

I've just configured my 386 NetBSD 1.1 box as the primary name server for
my network, following the instructions in Craig Hunt's book.  

It works, in that I can telnet from a Mac on my network to
"crotalus.wcrb.com", and it will get the IP address from my name server.

But if I log on to the 386 and type: telnet crotalus.wcrb.com, I get the
message "unknown host".

If I type: nslookup crotalus.wcrb.com, I get:

Server: natrix.wcrb.com
Address: 0.0.0.0

Name: crotalus.wcrb.com
Address: 204.57.61.4

Hunt's book says I should see natrix's address, not 0.0.0.0.  Are the two
problems related?  Have I left something out of one of my database files?


Rob Landry
umar@cybercom.net