[plug] findns error

Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima tony at cantech.net.au
Mon Feb 19 14:37:05 WST 2001


On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Thomas, Andre wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks to those who responded to my ssh error; not resolved as yet but
> have a bigger issue pon the plate atm.  DNS seems to be broken.  I have
> noticed the following things:
>
> 	- server will not resolve itself with an nslookup (image problem
> / low self esteem?);
> 	- /usr/bin/DHCP-DNS/fixedips seems to get stuck when run - this
> one of the cron jobs;
> 	- in the logs, the following appears when trying a snlookup on
> itself:
> 		sysquery :  findns error (NXDOMAIN) on server.domain ?
>
> Restarting or reloading /etc/rc.cd/init.d/named does not produce
> results.  /etc/rc.cd/init.d/named status points out that the
> "configuration file is NOT loaded".  It is a RH 6.0 box.

can you grab the info in /var/log/messages after doing a
service named restart (the same as  /etc/rc.cd/init.d/named restart only
shorter to type)

Also the contents of /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/named.conf or /etc/named.boot

What version of bind is it ??

Yours Tony.

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