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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: DNS question ... anyone know this one ?
Date: 7 Mar 1997 15:58:30 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <01bbf056$87187000$664c1bcc@tony.gcr1.com>,
"Tony" <tony@gcr1.com> writes:
> I'm trying to get my box to run dns as a primary to our domain ...
> I have it running using a pointer to named.root in the boot up (named.boot)
> The problem is I can't seem to find a way to have my dns lookup itself or
> our domain ...?
> We allready have a dns server at our isp and I suspect that is hampering
> the a lookup ?
>
> I can't do a nslookup for our domain from the box either ...
> any ideas on what it is I'm doing wrong .. (and I'm sure it is me!)
You're probably doing the nslookup wrong (if your ISP is primary). Try
nslookup mydomain myispsnameserver
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !