[CentOS] Caching nameserver -- Name Services Cache Daemon (nscd)

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Aug 10 05:27:30 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 17:22, William Warren wrote:

> So i did this:
>  >nslookup hotmail.com
> (on my winders box)
> and i got this:
> *** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.200: Non-existent domain

I think this is only fatal with nslookup, but DNS servers should be
able to reverse-resolve their own IP address to a name and apparently
your forwarding server doesn't know your private addresses either.
What does 'dig @localhost' say on the box itself?

The right fix is to configure either this or the upstream server
as primary for the 192.168.0 zone.  Otherwise you'll toss thousands
of these queries up to the root servers.

zone "0.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN {
       type master;
       file "192.168.0.arpa";
       allow-update { none; };
};
If you don't know the format for the zone file mentioned, you
might want to use webmin to build it.


> The box's name is Enoch.emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
> ip is 192.168.0.200 set statically.

Does your upstream server resolve that domain or your private
addresses?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com





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