Chuck Ryan wrote:
>
> I am attempting to get my 3000 to use our local DNS running on Windows NT
> 4.0.
>
> This server has a list of our local machines and if the name is not found
> locally, it forwards the request to our ISP's DNS. When I try an do an
> nslookup from the 3000, I get the following result:
>
> shell/iX> /BIND/PUB/bin/nslookup
> *** Can't find server name for address 192.0.0.98: Non-existent host/domain
> *** Default servers are not available
>
> My RESLVCNF looks like this:
>
> domain svmic.com
> search svmic.com
> nameserver 192.0.0.98
>
> Any ideas on how I can make this work?

I believe nslookup is telling you that the nameserver running on 192.0.0.98
lacks a PTR record that maps 192.0.0.98 back to a host name.

Alas, I've never tried to run a DNS server on NT, so I don't know where to tell
you to look to confirm or correct this.

- Mark B.