Re: Why is this doing this...?

Delon E. Weuve

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Jul 13, 2010, 3:44:52 PM7/13/10

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Oh, yeah....

Unloading and reloading NAMED doesn't seem to make any difference...

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Delon E. Weuve
Senior Network Engineer
Office of Auditor of State
State of Iowa
United States of America

>>> Anders Gustafsson<And...@no-mx.forums.novell.com> 6/3/2010 1:17 PM >>>
Delon E. Weuve,
> I make changes on the DNS server and try to ping from the
> workstation and it cannot resolve.
>
Sometimes does it take a while for changes to be picked up. Did you try
reloading NAMED?

Also, what exactly is not working? You entered an A‑record and then
tried pinging it?

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Anders Gustafsson

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Jul 13, 2010, 4:10:39 PM7/13/10

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Delon E. Weuve,
> "Ping request could not find host xxx.yyy.zzz.
>
And does the same thing happen if you do a manual PING for that
address? What about NSLOOKUP address ?

- Anders Gustafsson (Sysop)

Delon E. Weuve

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Jul 13, 2010, 3:43:58 PM7/13/10

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Hello, Anders...

Sorry it took so long to respond back.

Here's what is happening:

1. I get our DHCP server to assign the DNS server for our workstations to a
NetWare DNS server.
2. I set an A record to a intranet site maintained by the agency that
provides our Internet access.
3. When I ping from that server, the name resolves to the IP address just
fine.
4. When I print from a workstation with that server as its DNS server, I get
a message "Ping request could not find host xxx.yyy.zzz. Please check the
name and try again.

Any ideas?

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Delon E. Weuve
Senior Network Engineer
Office of Auditor of State
State of Iowa
United States of America

>>> Anders Gustafsson<And...@no-mx.forums.novell.com> 6/3/2010 1:17 PM >>>
Delon E. Weuve,
> I make changes on the DNS server and try to ping from the
> workstation and it cannot resolve.
>
Sometimes does it take a while for changes to be picked up. Did you try
reloading NAMED?

Also, what exactly is not working? You entered an A‑record and then
tried pinging it?

‑ Anders Gustafsson (Sysop)

Anders Gustafsson

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Jul 14, 2010, 2:49:43 PM7/14/10

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Delon E. Weuve,
> When I do a nslookup for the full domain name. the server that is my DNS
> server says
>
> *** <DNS server> can't find <my requested domain>: Non-existent domain
>
So you clearly have a problem there. Can you do an NSLOOKUP for *any*
domain?

Delon E. Weuve

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Jul 14, 2010, 12:01:03 PM7/14/10

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When I manually ping the server from the workstation, everything times out.
I expect that because the man in charge of the website told me that it would
not respond to pings.

When I do a nslookup for the full domain name. the server that is my DNS
server says

*** <DNS server> can't find <my requested domain>: Non-existent domain

Any ideas...?

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Delon E. Weuve
Senior Network Engineer
Office of Auditor of State
State of Iowa
United States of America

>>> Anders Gustafsson<And...@no-mx.forums.novell.com> 7/13/2010 3:10 PM

>>>
Delon E. Weuve,
> "Ping request could not find host xxx.yyy.zzz.
>
And does the same thing happen if you do a manual PING for that
address? What about NSLOOKUP address ?

‑ Anders Gustafsson (Sysop)

Anders Gustafsson

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Jul 14, 2010, 3:10:47 PM7/14/10

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Ie:

C:\>nslookup www.dalton.ax
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.1.1: Non-existent domain
*** Default servers are not available
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.1.1

Name: dalton.ax
Address: 194.112.9.157
Aliases: www.dalton.ax