[plug] findns error

[Thomas, Andre]

Thanks but found the whole...  the lookup file in /var/named/ had a line
that mysteriously went...

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima [mailto:tony at cantech.net.au]
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 2:37 PM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] findns error


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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