Re: [TCLUG:21561] Name resolution not working

[Adam Maloney <adamm@sihope.com>]

You shouldn't have to put the search domain in the resolv.conf, it just
tells your local machine what domain to append to hostnames if you just
specify a hostname and not a FQDN.

nslookup isn't getting a response from the nameservers, so first see if
you're firewalling off DNS (port 53 UDP/TCP I believe).  If you don't
think it's being firewalled try a different nameserver.  128.101.101.101
is U of M, 209.98.98.98 is VISI.

Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Sihope Communications

On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Mandar Vaze wrote:

> Hi,
> I just installed Mandrake 7.1 and my Name resolution 
> is not working. I have uswest DSL service, so I have 
> the primary/secondary nameservers' IP address in 
> my /etc/resolve.conf My problem is when I do nslookup,
> 
> it says 
> "Can't find server name for <ip-addr of primary>"
> "Can't find server name for <ip-addr of secondary>"
> "No response from default servers"
> 
> I understand that apart from nameserver entries, I 
> need to put 2 more entires in /etc/resolv.conf, 
> domain and search. But since my machine is not visible
> 
> from internet (Its DHCP assigned  IP address is 
> 10.0.0.2) I'm not sure what domain and search values
> to put there.
> 
> Do I *have* to run local nameserver (named) in this
> case ?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> -Mandar
> 
> 
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