Re: [CustomDNS] nslookup

[Joel S. <jo...@kn...>]

Eric Kidd wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:28:36PM -0800, Joel Shellman wrote:
> > # nslookup www.emptydomain.com
> > *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: Not implemented
> > *** Default servers are not available
> >
> > Any idea why?
> 
> Yes. nslookup needs to be pointed at a regular DNS server, not an
> "authority only" server such as CustomDNS.  That error message means that
> nslookup is trying to associate a host name with 127.0.0.1, and failing.
> 
> There is a way to work around this, but I don't remember it off the top of
> my head.  It's probably easiest to have CustomDNS serve a real zone, and
> perform your queries through a regular server.
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric

I realized after I posted it that it was probably doing a reverse
lookup. Does CustomDNS support reverse lookups? How would you set it up?
For bind, it's usually in files like 0.0.127.in-arpa. or whatever. I
grepped the source for "reverse" and couldn't find anything.

Thanks,
-- 
Joel Shellman
KnOcean Interactive Corporation
http://www.knocean.com/